The point is that this is a power these people should not have, and so far as *I* am concerned, if you have a million or above audience, you should not be allowed to censor any of them beyond what the law requires. (illegal content.)
I don't care if you think the first amendment only applies to governments. Had you read any of the Federalist papers and such, and had you any familiarity with crimes like "Lese Majeste", and such, you would understand that the founders only mentioned government because they never conceived that "private" corporations would be so large that they could effectively censor people.
To the founders, only a government could do such a thing.
Their intent was that people be not censored, and I believe it is an absolutely necessary component of our system of governance that we do not tolerate censorship no matter how it is accomplished or by whom.
If you think otherwise, than you either haven't carefully considered the consequences of what you believe, or you're an idiot.
Nowadays these mega-corporations are working hand in glove with the Deep State socialists imbedded into our system. The loop hole of "private" censorship is big enough to drive a tyranny through it.
"Private" is just a puppet for "Government". Figure it out.
Nice rant. Here here!
That would be an interesting question to pose to a corporation.
“Are you big enough to be a government?”
“I don’t care if you think the first amendment only applies to governments.”
Hey...it is not just “what I think” the 1st amendment applies to.
It is actually what the damn amendment ACTUALLY says....it says THE GOVERNMENT.
Everyone, yourself included, can get their panties in a wad over this...and I don’t like what twitter and others are up to politically....but if the leftists were telling the government to stop Jim Robinson from throwing liberals and leftist trolls off of freerepublic the same “conservatives” would be taking the exact same stance I am taking with this reddit crap.
Like Levin says...when it comes to judges and the constitution there is no conservatives vs liberals.
You either believe the constitution means what it says and says what it means....or you don’t believe in the document that has held our Republic together for thes 230+ years.