ISTM that you're putting the cart before the horse: We don't need to be discussing whether content moderation needs speech protection, because the people who ad

ISTM that you're putting the cart before the horse: We don't need to be discussing whether content moderation needs speech protection, because the people who advocate for government regulation of content moderation haven't proved up the need for, and appropriateness of, such regulation. (In litigation terms, since we're both lawyers: It's premature to focus on whether to give platforms free-speech protection for their content moderation would be akin to an affirmative defense: The question doesn't need to be reached unless and until those urging regulation of moderation succeed in making a Twombly/Iqbal plausible case, which in my judgment they haven't.)