Speech

With the recent revelations by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, regarding government pressure to ban certain information, it is time to review the law regarding free speech. The law says that government cannot censor speech but that does not apply to private companies but government cannot pressure private companies to censor. The two main areas that Zuckerberg says were involved were the information on Covid and the story about the Hunter Biden laptop. He says he was wrong to succumb to pressure from the FBI and limit access to these stories. The importance of these revelations is being watered down by arguing over how often censorship has occurred over the years instead of the seriousness of the crime. This is a wrong no matter which administration is involved. It is the old teenage defense that the government uses regularly, mom everyone is doing it.