The First Amendment to the US Constitution may forbid the US Government from abridging the citizens’ right to free speech, but Big Tech corporations are subject to no such constraint. As the world has just witnessed, they can silence a President of the United States.

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...