Twitter may be committing acts of government censorship under the banner of a private company. This is the basis of a Trump lawsuit against the platform, which will examine whether its act of de-platforming Donald Trump when he was president of the United States was done at the government’s request.
According to Alex Kozinski, a former Ninth Circuit Judge and a Trump lawyer on the case, the lawsuit could have a sweeping impact on free speech. If it’s determined that Twitter was acting under government pressure on censorship, and if the court views this as a type of state censorship, then such forms of censorship could be deemed illegal….