They’re allowed to censor.
...and of course their section 320 exemption from being regulated like media companies can be pulled which would be an extreme headache for them.
....and the DOJ can bring anti-trust actions against them.
.... and courts can rule they are the equivalent of the “town square” and thus cannot ban or censor anybody like the 9th circuit ruled when the owners of a private shopping mall on private property were required to admit protestors onto their property.
I advocate all of the above be applied to Big Tech immediately.
good checklist.
how many of them do business with the govt? that also changes the rules on what they can and can’t do.
and then there’s the legislation used way back to break up the railroad monopoly - seems there are some similarities.
unfairly censored people should sue en masse, claiming financial and emotional damages for down-time, and unequal protection under TOS, remembering that most of these entities engage worldwide with no qualms towards cowtowing to various repressive regimes.
In some of these instances wouldn’t a few words expanding the definition of “public accommodation” in US code 42 make the tech companies just as liable as the people being sued for cakes and flowers?