But what about Trump’s apparently retaliatory executive order?
President Trump is alleging that Twitter “is completely stifling FREE SPEECH” by appending a label on one of his tweets about mail balloting for its users to fact check what he said. On Friday, Twitter went a step further, blocking users from immediately seeing one of his tweets that said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” about police-violence protests in Minneapolis.
Trump appears to be alleging that Twitter violated his constitutional right to free speech— but it didn’t either time it appended an official note to his tweets.
First, a primer on the right to free speech: It’s right there in the First Amendment of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law “abridging the freedom of speech,” in addition to other freedoms such as religion and press and the right to assemble. And for centuries, the courts have erred on stringently protecting people’s freedom of speech from government intervention. Continue reading.