You don't have a right to spread the plague.

Period.

Censorship via prior restraint: Pentagon Papers 1971 v. Hunter Biden 2020.

The word censorship is getting thrown around much too loosely. For me censorship is the government preventing someone from speaking or publishing. If the government is not doing the preventing, it's not censorship. For the record, here is the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Let's juxtapose two cases:

1. Pentagon Papers 1971:

The New York Times published three parts but then was served with a prior restraint court order, which prevented it from further publication. The Times escalated quickly and directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard the case the next day and issued its opinion in 15 days. The justices voted 6-3 to allow the Times to resume publishing. The Court found that the government had not met a "heavy burden of showing justification".

Does anything recently involving Twitter or any other issue remind you of that? Has anyone been arrested?

2. Hunter Biden 2020:

Note: Hunter Biden is the son of the incumbent president since 1/20/2021 (elected November 2020): Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

I learned about the New York Post story at the time: October 2020. I definitely did NOT learn about it at Twitter nor by reading the New York Post. Like most U.S. citizens I do not get information directly from Twitter. I don't know how to find information on Twitter. I do not follow anyone on Twitter. My only use of Twitter is to write the current title and link for a post at my Radical Baseball blog. Here is the latest: Monday, December 12, 2022:

NBA pioneer Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton played minor league baseball. https://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2022/12/nba-pioneer-nat-sweetwater-clifton.html

The government did not even try to get a prior restraint court order to stop the New York Post from publishing. Some mid level government officials, including at the FBI, tried to influence people at Twitter and Facebook both before and after the New York Post published. Much of the internal activity at Twitter has come out recently. This was initiated by the new owner of Twitter: Elon Musk.

No one has been arrested over publishing the Hunter Biden story. The New York Post newspaper and website were not seized, closed or compromised in any way. Its Twitter account was suspended by Twitter.

Some 280 character Twitter wisecracks were suppressed by Twitter but not by the government. Twitter is not THE public square. Twitter is just one of many things based on the Internet.

If you don't like how Twitter is run, go do your own thing.

If you don't like how the government is run, go run for office.