When I worked with some NASA engineers from Alabama, I had trouble taking them seriously due to their accent! They were the ones getting stuff done, though. Statistically, Alabama ranks significantly better than California for both child and adult literacy. Are you perhaps a bit biased in your opinion of people from the south?
Not if you include literacy in any language e.g. Spanish or English.
> If the government is not involved, the First Amendment does not apply.
The interesting point where this intersects Twitter is from before Musk took over. The Twitter Files clearly demonstrated that government agencies, from the FBI to the DHS and more, were in intimate contact with internal Twitter moderators and frequently made demands to Censor (wording!) Americans by banning or deranking their posts. Often despite significant protest by Twitter staff! Hell, there was an internal welcome group and onboarding packet for 'former' FBI agents that were hired on to Twitter, sometimes the same people that used to be on the government side of email chains.
The government can't just hide its Censorship behind supposedly independent actions of a private company.
If it's government action in disguise the First Amendment still applies.
Musk's anomalous takeover suddenly and unexpectedly exposed rampant government-directed Censorship happening inside Twitter. There's no such thing as one cockroach. If you see one, there are a hundred hiding that you can't see. The scary part is that the same thing is almost certainly happening across the tech industry.