Rep. Raskin schools Republicans on the First Amendment during hearing on Twitter's “role in suppressing the Biden laptop story.” (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
The lesson came during a House Oversight Committee hearing at which Republicans tried to harness their obsessions with Hunter Biden’s laptop and"Big Tech" into something resembling a coherent complaint.
Raskin blasted the Republican-led effort as a “trivial pursuit,” pointing out that under the First Amendment, which applies to“Twitter is a private media company,” the panel’s top Democrat apparently needed to remind his GOP counterparts. That means, as Raskin noted, that Twitter can ban Donald Trump for inciting violent insurrection, or go in a new direction under Elon Musk and reinstate the unrepentant Trump to the platform.
On the flip side, Raskin observed that the First Amendment’s robust protections don’t provide the right to incite imminent violence as Trump did.
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