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  1. Companies use censorship because they have a responsibility to protect their users and deter potential violence. However, social media platforms are not subject to legal protections of free speech, such as the First Amendment in the United States, because they are private platforms. On a strictly legal basis, social media companies are not violating free speech when they remove certain content – the same way Fox News is not violating free speech by not offering as many liberal perspectives as conservative ones. Thus, this argument should be an ethical one rather than a legal one?

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