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A private advertising medium (Facebook, twitter, the TV station, etc) are not responsible for upholding your first amendment right to free speech. They are a pr
by cazum 9y ago
A private advertising medium (Facebook, twitter, the TV station, etc) are not responsible for upholding your first amendment right to free speech. They are a private entity that get to decide what gets published on their platform.
The first amendment only frees your speech from state suppression.
- PurpleBoxDragon 9y agoYeah, upon rereading it I realize it was speaking from the point of Facebook. I though it had been speaking from the point of a government requirement, as in making a suggestion of what should be required by law. That one was my mistake.
- gaius 9y agoThey are a private entity that get to decide what gets published on their platform Except when they want to hide behind the legal defence of “common carrier”. Can’t have it both ways.