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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity (www.thefire.org)
submitted 22 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • 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.
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The current administration didn't tell anyone they had to remove anything either, AFAIK. But it can be considered curtailing freedom of speech to ask.

Threatening to take away their license to broadcast is very different, but that was for ABC.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The current administration is 100% openly telling apple, Google, Facebook, etc... to remove ice reporting tool and making threats against protected speech.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 12 hours ago

Doesn't look like the actual letters were ever released. But let's be real here, all they had to do was ask, just like the admins that came before them.