>Please observe the first word of the first amendment, "Congress." That means any legislative body: federal, state, or municipal. Actually, technically it does

>Please observe the first word of the first amendment, "Congress." That means any legislative body: federal, state, or municipal. Actually, technically it doesn’t. At the time of the writing, the Bill of Rights only applied to the Federal Government and not the states. There were later court cases that expanded many of the rights to also include the state governments. Thus, we already have precedent for expanding two the First Amendment applies to: Originally it was Congress, and not it is even Municipal governments. An argument can be made that the power of say Facebook exceeds that of a municipal government to whom the First Amendment applies, and that a Facebook ban is far more chilling than what a small town mayor censoring stuff.