Quoting article: There’s nothing wrong with websites like Facebook or Google deciding to block videos of shootings or suspend accounts if they choose to – as long as it’s not by government edict.
There is something wrong with that. We need to beef up the Free Speech laws to include the major social media platforms in the First Amendment legal structure, as public spaces in the electronic world (not private property) just as we have public space in the real world.
“We need to beef up the Free Speech laws to include the major social media platforms in the First Amendment legal structure,”
And if someone decides that Free Republic is a major social media platform does the government get to decide who and what gets blocked on FR?
I can no longer comment on movies at Amazon because the Amazon police said I broke community rules. Meaning I upset a snowflake
Everyone ignores that 1A specifically refers to CONGRESS.
Hence we have many laws locally such as against porn, etc. So no, it does not refer to just any time and any place, as libs usually want us to believe.