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> Sure, but then why is electioneering banned by polling places? Or why is voter intimidation illegal?

Because those things are not just speech - they're implicit or explicit physical threats.

America runs most of the world's social media platforms and expects other countries to be happy with that, but then panics the moment another country dares to offer them the same thing? I don't know which scenario is worse, the one where this is just an excuse for an America First trade war or the one where the US genuinely believes that controlling a social platform means you control the countries that use it.



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