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		zionic on Sept 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to reg... > Corporations are not bound by the restrictions laid out in the first amendment; only the government is. I think that is no longer the consensus. We have corporations that rival governments now.

int_19h on Sept 18, 2022 [–]

It is most certainly the judicial consensus. You might argue that it's not a social consensus, but that doesn't magically override existing constitutional protections. Much the same as social consensus on guns doesn't override the Second Amendment.

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