Frankly, I really don’t know how to balance the rights of private social media companies and the demands of the left to take control of them and run them by their standards.
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I do...look to the 1st Amendment. Can the Left censor POLITICAL speech simply because it might lead to someone getting hurt in any way?
The classification of political speech as HATE speech is a tactic used by Leftists to crush their opponents. People on the political Right have moments of weakness where they by into the whole hate speech censorship movement. Just ask yourself a simple question: Does the prosecution of so-called hate speech cause more injustice than it prevents? Unless you are a complete and hopeless Leftard, you will answer “Yes!”.
The Founding Fathers took steps to ensure that the Postal Service would be content-neutral and remain available to all, because it was the vehicle through which political information was disseminated and debates were conducted at the time.
These internet companies are the 21st. Century equivalent.
The same rules should apply.