The Supreme Court has ruled that it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict...the free flow of information and ideas.”
The full text: "The First Amendment's command that government not impede the freedom of speech does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict, through physical control of a critical pathway of communication, the free flow of information and ideas."
While the First Amendment generally does not apply to private companies, the Supreme Court has held it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict . . . the free flow of information and ideas.”
I know for a fact my aunt mails in ballots for her husband, her father and her mother. Claiming that there is no mail-in voter fraud among 300 million Americans is quite absurd in my opinion.
The quarantines in place have resulted in far fewer cancer screenings and treatments, which will "literally result in more deaths". Can't we have an honest debate without censorship instead of accusing any dissent as "FUD"?
"I have never seen a stronger case for the need to have third-party certification and testing of software and the people involved in building it."
Are you proposing that every GitHub repository be certified by a third-party and tested before use? Besides, "high quality" software like Google Maps or iOS don't have anything close to "third-party certification".