See complete text of Hawley’s tweet below:
[Editor’s note: The First Amendment only applies to government, not private companies, which can censor to their heart’s content. A U.S. Senator doesn’t know that? Of course he does. Hawley is a Yale Law graduate and former Supreme Court clerk. Mark Cuban, if you don’t know, is a billionaire entrepreneur; but not, apparently, the owner of the publisher in question. In this case, Cuban appears to merely be commenting on Hawley’s dispute with his publisher.
For a story about other blowback coming Hawley’s way for his role in helping to incite the deadly insurrection, click here.
[Off-topic portion deleted — Ed.] Publishers should be concerned about that free speech thing and should not bend to political pressure to publish or not publish. It should be a self interest thing, who being in the biz and may want to run for President should mean we should look at his statement here critically.
Publishing houses are private businesses and can publish whatever they choose. They are not bound by “free speech” principles. It’s not “a self-interest” thing because Cuban doesn’t own the publisher and had no role in the decision, a fact I pointed out that apparently flew over your head; he’s simply an uninvolved third party commenting about it.