The Invisible Hand of the State: How Government Coercion is Rewriting the First Amendment in Silicon Valley

The Invisible Hand of the State: How Government Coercion is Rewriting the First Amendment in Silicon Valley Imagine a world where the President of the United States doesn’t need to pass a single law to silence a critic, remove an app, or shutter a tracking tool—they simply need to make a phone call to a billionaire CEO in Cupertino or Menlo Park. For years, the digital frontier has been governed by the "State Action Doctrine," a legal shield that allows private companies like Meta and Apple to m