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Freedom of Speech Versus Property Rights

Civil censorship on a private platform does not violate freedom of speech. Rather, it is unwanted speech on a private platform which violates the essential freedom of property rights.

Free speech entails only a promise by the government, that they will not silence speech that does not impose a clear and present danger, unless silencing such speech is an unavoidable and incidental part of the process of prosecuting an unrelated crime committed by the speaker.

For example, suppose a burglar breaks into someone's house, steals everything, goes home, puts it away, goes back out to