Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is un

Few pieces of political writing are as widely misunderstood, misinterpreted and falsely disseminated as the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

For years, whenever a public figure has faced backlash and consequences for social media posts, public comments or even private statements that offended people, self-proclaimed defenders of free speech would insist that the First Amendment rights of their fellow Americans were being violated. Their argument was flawed because a groundswell of backlash over bad behavior — resulting in, say, a private company cutting ties with a controversial figure — is about the market, not about the government.

But I have good news for free speech defenders and cancel culture abolitionists: a clear-cut case of actual First Amendment infringement — the fede