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Carl Hiaasen: Just because the twit can’t tweet, doesn’t mean his big mouth is silenced

To all the fools who actually believe we’ve got a constitutional right to a Twitter account: What constitution have you been reading?

Twitter is a private company that can shut down you or me anytime it chooses. Same goes for Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

The First Amendment guarantees free speech, but it doesn’t force others to publish, broadcast or otherwise disseminate every asinine thing we might have to say.

This newspaper, for example, would refuse to run any column

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