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Editorial: Government should not suppress speech on social media. The price is always too high

On Tuesday, a Louisiana federal judge ruled that the Biden administration could not quietly contact social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to remove protected free speech.

Some saw this as bad news for the removal of “misinformation” or, in the words of The New York Times, government “efforts to combat false and misleading narratives.”

We say: The judge, who shrewdly issued his ruling on Independence Day, was right.

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