The Twitter Files

 So, Mr. Musk is releasing internal files that show how the company conducted themselves to shadow ban conservative thought.   That is not, in-an-of itself, a 1st Amendment violation. What may be a 1A violation is how the government, through its alphabet agencies, pressure Twitter to do so.

As interesting as these revelations are, we have to ask ourselves what it means?  Twitter itself was profoundly changed during the Musk takeover, but will there be any repercussions for the government agencies? I doubt it, unless Twitter starts naming names.  Not the agency involved, but the functionaries involved.  When we learn that Agent Schmedlap did something that violated the 1st Amendment, then we can prosecute Agent Schmedlap.

It's not enough to know that the FBI pressured Twitter to do certain things.  We need to know who in the FBI pressured Twitter to do those things.  When Agent Schmedlap's career is ruined and he is serving time in a federal prison for civil rights violations, the word will get out to the rest of the agency.

If that doesn't happen, then none of this matters.  They will have gotten away with it.