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The Constitution only protects you from the government, it doesn't bind individuals or companies. The government cannot make laws that take away your freedom o
by tempodox 2y ago
The Constitution only protects you from the government, it doesn't bind individuals or companies. The government cannot make laws that take away your freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean other people or companies are legally obligated to let you say whatever you want on their turf.
- halJordan 2y agoIt does though. I get where you're coming from but thats a naive interpretation of a partial set of facts. Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Ctr does establish that free speech protection can be used against other private citizens
- rascul 2y agoThat court found that the California Constitution protected the free speech in that case. Not the US Constitution, which wouldn't protect the free speech in that case
- jdoe2025 2y agoYes, but a browser is like a wirephoto. The recipient gets an exact copy of the original -- not retouched. Spelling errors, bad grammar, "warts and all." The browser is supposed to be transparent -- what you send is what I see. How I react is up to me. It is not up to the intervening service to add or remove content. This is what the internet was intended to be.
- tempodox 2y agoLegal frameworks and other realities can make intentions hard or impossible to achieve.