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Don't be naive. There was no jawboning from the previous administration to networks to cancel someone -- especially someone who always made fun of the President.

However, this is a a classic example of violation of 1A. (I agree that the thing that was probably in the grey area was they asked Twitter to remove certain COVID-19 medical disinformation tweets -- But, come on, many people were consuming horse dewormers for COVID and dying. )

The right's cancel culture is a violation of constitution because it's the government that's doing the cancelling.



Ignoring or at least dismissing the similar acts on the left highlights the reason that a third party is necessary.

It’s clear Trump is attempting to capture the institution, and I’m not equivocating, but this has been an escalating ping pong back and forth over the last two decades.

I’d rather live in a unified country. Unity comes from breaking out of the polarization




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