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> Jin willingly committed crimes, and sought to mislead others at the company, to help PRC authorities censor and punish U.S. users’ core political speech merely for exercising their rights to free expression,"

Freedom of speech on a private platform? How is that even enforceable?

I thought only government could not restrict speech. But private entities did not have to promote speech and had say in which speech they promoted and which they didn’t.



18 U.S. Code § 2261A

18 U.S. Code § 1028

He's not charged with breaking freedom of speech, he's being charged with various felonies relating to siphoning off identifying information for use by the Chinese government.




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