The legal analyst continued:“Even more puzzling, these people appear oblivious to the inherent restrictions imposed on them due to their government roles. Why do they feel so emboldened? They write they’re frustrated Twitter imposed an additional step to remove posts they don’t like, forcing government actors to use a third party intermediary to make the request. Stunning they’re so oblivious as to the illegality of this, they write asking Twitter to remove this inconvenient step, and post the letter online!! The other shocking ask is their request to have direct input into Twitter’s user agreement. Legally, everything about that is outrageous...
The legal analyst continued: "That of course begs the question, did Twitter change its user agreement at this groups request and or direction? Did they influence any language directed at removing users? Did they have a role in the creation of fact checkers? Anyway, I’m not giving Twitter an out with this. In my opinion they acted illegally by creating the additional step for intermediaries to request removing an individual’s post or account." This step, initiated and taken deliberately by Twitter, denied users any legal remedy. It gave state actors the ability to illegally silence speech of individuals and a means for those illegal acts to be hidden behind the wall of a well funded corporation. This scheme between powerful state actors and a moneyed corporation, effectively denied users the ability to discover the true source of their injury. This prevented users potentially from comparing election irregularities in their areas, similarities of injury, maybe even complaining about election law changes and organizing to counter government overreach. Shockingly, this is 2019. How bad did this get? We don’t know, but we can see they’re clueless that what they’re doing is illegal. So why would we assume they recognize any boundaries.No wonder state actors and their vendor experts can say confidently all contrary opinion is debunked, when this is what’s going on behind the scenes.
When people complain that Americans are being complacent and not speaking up on all the blatant wrongs we’ve witnessed, this letter goes a long way to explain the silence."
