How the Government Justifies Its Social-Media Censorship – WSJ

The Supreme Court has adopted doctrines that inadvertently erode the ability of officials to see that censorship is unconstitutional. Although the doctrines, when carefully considered by sophisticated judges, reveal the unlawfulness of the suppression, they have weakened the constitutional obstacles to censorship by depriving them of their demotic clarity. They even seem to invite game-playing by officials. So FBI agents and other officials imagine that censorship is permissible. And in defending the errant officials, the Justice Department echoes their manipulative reading of weak doctrine.

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Prof. Phil Hamburger, who wrote this piece, is head of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents the State of Missouri in its suit against the federal government for censoring speech on social media. If they win, it will be an epic victory for free speech.