President Joe Biden’s administration repeatedly insists it is not violating the First Amendment in its attempts to control Americans’ speech using Big Tech. The regime’s recent targeting of Elon Musk and Twitter via weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission, however, suggests otherwise. Why else would it punish the social media company as soon as its incoming CEO pledged to roll back censorship on his app? …

The FTC’s sudden panic about Twitter’s decade-old noncompliance directly coincided with the meltdowns from corporate media, Democrats, and Twitter employees who expressed concern they would no longer be able to control online speech. Congressional Democrats, specifically, proudly cheered the FTC on. As recently as this week, leftist senators such as Elizabeth Warren are begging the bureaucracy to target Musk in his new role at Twitter.