

Gonna go on a bit of a tangent.
While technically correct, this is one or the many hypocrisies of the United States. The ability to silence others is a grotesque one. And while the government on paper is prohibited from exercising such a power, that power is still abundant in the form of private companies that weild power equal to nation states. If the United States truly valued freedom of speech, the same would apply to private companies.




In practice it is. People use it as a synonym for trickle down economics. As in, the billionaire’s yacht rising with the tide will somehow trickle down to the rest of us.