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Sorry, where are the First Amendment issues with allowing social media networks to censor whatever they want? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establi

Sorry, where are the First Amendment issues with allowing social media networks to censor whatever they want? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Let's please not make the mistake of saying all issues that relate to freedom of speech are First Amendment issues.

kcplate 4y ago
> Let's please not make the mistake of saying all issues that relate to freedom of speech are First Amendment issues. The problem is when government and social media actively collude to side step the government’s responsibility to the first amendment…the government has dragged the social media companies into first amendment territory. You have two ways of handling this: one…have the government police itself…which it won’t do, because it is already actively trying to find ways around its responsibility to freedom of speech; Or two, start lawsuits that expose the collusion and start making it expensive for social media companies to collude with the government to censor.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
  >The problem is when government and social media actively collude to side step the government’s responsibility to the first amendment The government's responsibility to the First Amendment is "don't make laws that limit freedom of religion, speech or assembly". I don't know what it means for government to collude with a third party to side-step that responsibility.
  - kcplate 4y ago
    Ahh so you think it’s ok for the government to encourage the censorship of speech it doesn’t like by companies it is actively investigating (threatening)…as long as they don’t make a law to that effect?
  - chrismcb 4y ago
    The wording if the Constitution is about making a law. But it has become accepted that it means the government shouldn't have a say in it. And you, as a free citizen, shouldn't want them to.

kcplate 4y ago

> Let's please not make the mistake of saying all issues that relate to freedom of speech are First Amendment issues. The problem is when government and social media actively collude to side step the government’s responsibility to the first amendment…the government has dragged the social media companies into first amendment territory. You have two ways of handling this: one…have the government police itself…which it won’t do, because it is already actively trying to find ways around its responsibility to freedom of speech; Or two, start lawsuits that expose the collusion and start making it expensive for social media companies to collude with the government to censor.

NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
>The problem is when government and social media actively collude to side step the government’s responsibility to the first amendment The government's responsibility to the First Amendment is "don't make laws that limit freedom of religion, speech or assembly". I don't know what it means for government to collude with a third party to side-step that responsibility.
- kcplate 4y ago
  Ahh so you think it’s ok for the government to encourage the censorship of speech it doesn’t like by companies it is actively investigating (threatening)…as long as they don’t make a law to that effect?
- chrismcb 4y ago
  The wording if the Constitution is about making a law. But it has become accepted that it means the government shouldn't have a say in it. And you, as a free citizen, shouldn't want them to.