When did conservatives turn against the First Amendment?

Published June 24, 2021 12:00am ET



Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a controversial bill to regulate social media that represents the culmination of months of conservative attacks on free speech and the Constitution.

The bill is designed to force social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to host speech from conservative speakers, regardless of whether that speech violates the policies of those platforms or even whether the speech would be actively harmful or illegal.

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