>>Which they have every right to do. They’re a private company.<<
FB promotes itself as a public forum platform, available for equal access and use by all. As such, they are protected from liability by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Yes, FB can censor speech, as they now are doing, and in doing so they should lose their status as a public forum and become a regular 1st Amendment entity, such as newspapers and magazines. They should lose their CDA immunity and be liable for the content of every post by their 3 billion members. FB wants it both ways; it must not permitted to operate in such a manner.
>FB promotes itself as a public forum platform, available for equal access and use by all. As such, they are protected from liability by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Yes, FB can censor speech, as they now are doing, and in doing so they should lose their status as a public forum and become a regular 1st Amendment entity, such as newspapers and magazines. They should lose their CDA immunity and be liable for the content of every post by their 3 billion members. FB wants it both ways; it must not permitted to operate in such a manner.
This. This. A thousand times, this. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops and appear in civil and criminal suits against Facebook, Google/Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, and the rest.
As soon as they exercised editorial authority, they became responsible for every vile, gross, and/or illegal item you let through; every threat of violence, every message speaking to illegal behavior, every picture, every solicitation.