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It’s become media orthodoxy that big tech firms are not bound by the First Amendment. This conventional wisdom posits that Facebook, Google and Twitter, with their near enormous powers, can squash and skew speech as the wish without effective legal recourse. However, Nadine Strossen, who was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008 and is More

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