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Freedom of speech is a much larger broader concept than the First Amendment. Consider for a second if some political position was banned by all privately owned
by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Freedom of speech is a much larger broader concept than the First Amendment.
Consider for a second if some political position was banned by all privately owned mediums in the US. Say for example it was reported on the violence is Bangladesh. Every internet provider would stop transferring data if it detected any mention of it, every server hosting data in any format would immediately remove any mention of it, Microsoft, Google, and Apple pushed updates to their OS's that would terminate what you were doing if they detected it.
Would freedom of speech (not the First Amendment) have been attacked in such a far-fetched scenario? Yes, despite it only being private companies doing things they have the right to do. As such, we can conclude that in such a scenario, freedom of speech includes requiring private entities to support a message they wish to not support. Now, would that not also apply in a less far-fetched scenario? I see no reason it would not.
- um_ya 8y agoFreedom of speech is a principle. Some people seem to forget that.
- notveryrational 8y agoThis has actually already been determined. For instance, businesses are required to serve all colors regardless of sexual orientation, color, religion, etc. It's a regressive part of this epoch of human history that the opposite is true of free speech: companies are required by law to surveil and censor.