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Yeah, if it were a 1A issue, they'd have been all over Twitter 1.0 and Facebook 1.0 when they were censoring proponents of Lab escape theory and Ivermectin and
by mc32 4y ago
Yeah, if it were a 1A issue, they'd have been all over Twitter 1.0 and Facebook 1.0 when they were censoring proponents of Lab escape theory and Ivermectin and so many other issues where they were kind of looking down at their feet whistling.
I don't think they are about civil liberties in general any more. It's more they advocate for some civil liberties they currently support.
- snowwrestler 4y agoA private company regulating the private speech on its privately owned social network is not a First Amendment issue. In fact it is precisely the sort of thing that the First Amendment exists to protect. Facebook and Twitter are not constrained by the First Amendment. The First Amendment exists as an umbrella under which they can do whatever they want. In this case the federal government (which is constrained by the First Amendment) is the one proposing to ban an app—entirely. That is most definitely a First Amendment issue.