"The First Amendment still doesn’t apply in practice... Free speech rights exist right now only because the administration has chosen to allow them, not because the First Amendment is protecting us. ... Why would I be put on a blacklist by Twitter?... Why would a private company, whose money is made by people communicating with each other, decide to put me on a blacklist? It turns out the answer is the government forced them to do it.... Science depends on free speech... If we silence debate, we silence discovery. And if the First Amendment cannot be enforced, then it is still a dead letter.... Right now, free speech in America depends on who is in power... That’s a perilous place to be."
Jay Bhattacharya

January 1, 1970

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