FIRE sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
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Two Midwesterners are fighting back after the platforms they created to report on public Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity were censored by government officials.
  • The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.
  • The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.
  • It’s unconstitutional for the government to coerce private companies into censorship.
    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      And when those lawsuits shook out it turned out that the Biden administration didn’t actually do anything wrong. It just warned people about an attempt to influence the election but never said they had to remove content.