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Yes they are trying to dismantle free speech rights by forcing private companies to provide platforms to publish content they do not want to.

There's a reasonable threat in 24 that if the election is close state legislatures will override the will of the people and submit a different set of electoral votes. This was attempted in 2020 but thankfully failed.

Edit: 2016->2020

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> Yes they are trying to dismantle free speech rights by forcing private companies to provide platforms to publish content they do not want to.

Communications carriers providing content-neutral service? Thank God the post office, USPS, FedEx, phone, fax, ISP, cell-phone, sat-phone, and handheld radio companies have the freedom to engage in partisan political censorship as they please. It would be a tyranny on those poor corporations were it not the case. Oh won't someone think of the shareholders!

The will of the people unimpeded by voting restrictions, weighted by obtuse electoral college lines with obtuse winner takes all runoffs*

Who attempted this? Biden shot down Pramila Jayapal objecting to the certification then.

The former president pressured the vice president not to certify election results, members of the house voted not to certify election results, the former president reached out to state legislatures to get them to override the public vote, the former president prematurely declared electoral victory, and the former president still has not conceded electoral defeat

You said 2016, not 2020.

Apologies, I meant 2020. will edit nkwt

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