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Some of us have been raising concerns over Twitter’s massive censorship system for years, including what I called the emergence of a “ shadow state ” where corporations carry out censorship the Constitution bars the government from doing. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University LawSchool.
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