This would imply that the regime supports the first amendment.
The fact that the government tends to do everything it can to subvert it through public/private partnerships (like the social media doing the censorship at the gov's behest) tends to indicate this isn't true.
Let's all just sit there and appreciate that it took the first amendment protections in order to say that he denounced the first in the first place.
Y'know, and not be arrested and disappeared for it because he said something the regime didn't like.
This would imply that the regime supports the first amendment.
The fact that the government tends to do everything it can to subvert it through public/private partnerships (like the social media doing the censorship at the gov's behest) tends to indicate this isn't true.