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Inmates do not have first amendment rights. Courts were routinely ordering Facebook to censor them. You don’t pay lawyers and engineers to handle a stream of menial, identical work orders. You pay them to develop a structured process to be operated in a call center type environment.


> Inmates do not have first amendment rights.

Which part of the first amendment states that?

(OK, it doesn't - the first amendment, and indeed the constitution, limits what government can do, not what people can do)


Why is this Facebook's problem, even? It's up to prisons to ensure that somebody who shouldn't be using Facebook, isn't.


It’s typically visitors on the outside posting on their behalf.




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