It is amazing to me how many people continue to obfuscate and/or downplay the revelations of the Twitter Files by pointing to the fact that Twitter is a private company that can do what they want. The issue isn't what Twitter did, the issue is that government agencies and politicians were directing Twitter to ban and censor people based on the content of their speech. This should be incredibly chilling to anyone who cares about free speech, the 1st Amendment or freedom in general. It isn't the place of the US government to regulate, suppress or attempt to influence the speech of US citizens in any way, shape or form, regardless of how much they don't like that speech or find it inconvenient to their respective agendas. It isn't the job of the FBI, the CIA, the DHS or any other 3-letter agency to try to control the public narrative, whether they call it "managing misinformation" or "disinformation" or any other euphemism they come up with. This isn't a "right wing" or "left wing" issue. If we purport to be a democracy that exists based on the consent of the masses then we need to ensure that our consent is not being manufactured and manipulated by the very government that supposedly exists to represent and work for us.