The government did not suppress any one's free speech, as is evident by the wack a doodle statements made here in this forum and thousands of others.
What they did was to entice the biggest social media companies to do it.. that's on the social media companies, not the government.. even though they shouldn't be doing that either.
Where does the first amendment say you can disregard it by sneaking around using third parties under threat and coercion?
They didn't use threats and coercion.... they used the laws.. Social media companies, including this website, are protected by a sweetheart law that was written and designed for the sole purpose of protecting these websites from liability for what their users post.
So if you post: "WANTED -Looking for a hitman to kill John Doe, will pay $5000" and John Doe ends up dead, the social media website is protected from liability.. for the most part, that was an extreme example. But there are other more appropriate examples as well.. For example, if I give you advice on your solar system and tell you to put one foot in a bucket of water before you grab that 240 wire, then this website would not be liable for hosting my dangerous speech (bad instructions) when you get hurt.
In other words, while I might be held liable (good luck with that!) for giving dangerous advice, this website would not be.
These laws were written to protect these social media websites, and for good reason.. Its not practical to moderate everything that is said on a website like facebook.
But laws are made and repealed all the time... as society moves forward and advances, we learn.. and we make new laws and delete old ones.
The law is section 230 of the communications decency act.. and all government (probably?) did was tell the social media companies that the dangerous advice and fake information they were seeing was causing them consider repealing that law.
Even Trump used it to threaten them..
The law probably needs to be repealed and replaced with something more appropriate for the times.. Maybe, I'm not entire sure because its not something I study or am interested in.
You however, have absolutely no f*ing clue about it or anything else. Some idiot jackass creates a blogger website and you believe anything they say.
For f*cks sakes, you're so stupid you think we could be spreading life thru the galaxy with our space probes.
At the time they were doing that the tech giants were being investigated by the same alphabet agencies and being brought before congress for oversight. They were offered leniency in exchange for compliance with the white houses political censorship program.
Deny it all you like but your side is evil to the core right now and is the threat to democracy.
I don't know what quackery the republicans were up to and I don't really care.. They can't "oversight" civilians without passing a law that must make it through the house, senate, and be signed by the president. That's tough to do unless one party is in charge.
I don't have a side you fruitcake..
If it was up to me, I'd probably pass a law that removes anonymity from social media. Make it so that everyone's real identification is available with every post and reply they make. That should put a quick damper on fruitcakes like you.
