The challenge for the Supreme Court is to determine where to draw the line between appropriate and unconstitutional communications between the federal government and these online media platforms. There seems to be no argument about the need for government to communicate with these online platforms for specific and actual national security or law enforcement actions.
The Biden administration was both directly requesting specific changes to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, as well as indirectly making censorship requests through federally-funded entities set up by CISA specifically for the purpose of providing a work-around from constitutional restrictions and hiding the federal government’s role in requesting censorship of specific users and topics. The content that received most of the censorship requests included election integrity, effectiveness of wearing masks and shutting…
