Mr Penguin on Nostr: There is a legal concept in law known as prior restraint (also known as prior ...

There is a legal concept in law known as prior restraint (also known as prior censorship or pre-publication censorship).

In U.S. constitutional law, it is a fundamental principle that the government cannot prohibit or restrict speech before it occurs, as this is considered a severe violation of First Amendment rights.

What makes corporate censorship disturbing is not that that corporations can censor, but that there are standards being set through threat of law that the government can't constitutionally set itself and there is a really good reason for that. Democracy literally depends on people being able to communicate freely and without fear of reprisals. Anything short of this leads to authoritarian dictatorial regimes and even this doesn't fully stop that from happening.

"Meta also limits the distribution of likely infringing live content and has introduced delays, so its anti-piracy measures can take effect before a stream is visible to the public."