You are telling me that a massive communications infrastructure system in wide usage in America that has over a billion users world wide is no threat to "free speech"?
You are very much mistaken, It is a horrendously bad threat to freedom of speech. It is effectively silencing half the population's voice.
As defined by the US Constitution the only entity that is prohibited from imposing restrictions on speech is the US Government.
The intent of the founders is that speech be not censored, and the only entity they saw capable of it was the government. Now conditions have changed, but freedom of speech is essential to freedom, and whether it be censored by government or by private entities exercising the power of a government is irrelevant to the threat this poses to free society.
We cannot afford to let the existing situation continue. It is a serious threat to our freedom.
Jim Robinson can throw everyone of us out if he so chooses.
Free Republic is effectively a club. It has little larger impact on public speech in general. These behemoths we are talking about carry massive amounts of public speech, and can have great effects on the election process, which is precisely why they want to control speech.
This is their tool for election manipulation, which in itself is degrading the right to vote and the process of free elections.
The US Constitution still applies to these conditions. There is nothing new about government t wishing to control private speech.
These are privately owned businesses. You are neither forced to join or participate. The other idea that half the population is being silenced is ludicrous. Especially when half the population doesn’t even use these platforms. Save the hyperventilating you may catch the WuFlu.
Private entities are no threat to freedom. Your employer can censor your speech and that is proper. They can fire you if your a Trump supporter and that is how it should be. No one forces you to work. Don’t agree with google your employer your church? Quit. The government should not enforce speech codes. You have no right to be heard.
Your are anti Constitution and anti speech. Speech codes and lockdowns tyranny has no bounds.