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So they're public fora when someone wants to criticize a politician, but private companies with no duty to allow people to say unpopular things when the company
by stcredzero 8y ago
So they're public fora when someone wants to criticize a politician, but private companies with no duty to allow people to say unpopular things when the company wants to kick them off the platform. Got it.
The key is the affect on the public's access to information and the affect on the public discourse. There are precedents that show a preference for Free Speech over property rights.
We need more cases that touch on Free Speech and new media to reach the Supreme Court. We've gotten to the point where a few well connected titans of industry can attempt to de-platform opinions they don't like off the whole of the internet, despite the desire of a public to hear and fund them. Some such people are pretty unsavory. Others are merely espousing fairly moderate positions but happen to be unpopular with those same titans of industry.