{"id":257623,"date":"2021-07-30T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=210403"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:49:29","slug":"when-government-and-big-tech-collude-against-the-first-amendment-an-interview-with-nadine-strossen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/30\/when-government-and-big-tech-collude-against-the-first-amendment-an-interview-with-nadine-strossen\/","title":{"rendered":"When Government and Big Tech Collude Against the First Amendment: an Interview With Nadine Strossen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become media orthodoxy\u00a0that big tech firms are not bound by the First Amendment. This conventional wisdom posits that Facebook, Google and Twitter, with\u00a0their near enormous powers, can squash and skew speech\u00a0as the wish without effective legal recourse. However,\u00a0Nadine Strossen, who was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008 and is  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/30\/when-government-and-big-tech-collude-against-the-first-amendment-an-interview-with-nadine-strossen\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/30\/when-government-and-big-tech-collude-against-the-first-amendment-an-interview-with-nadine-strossen\/\">When Government and Big Tech Collude Against the First Amendment: an Interview With Nadine Strossen<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/30\/when-government-and-big-tech-collude-against-the-first-amendment-an-interview-with-nadine-strossen\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become media orthodoxy\u00a0that big tech firms are not bound by the First Amendment. This conventional wisdom posits that Facebook, Google and Twitter, with\u00a0their near enormous powers, can squash and skew speech\u00a0as the wish without effective leg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257902,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257623\/revisions\/257902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}