Constitutionally, Americans have a right to free speech, but they don’t have the right to someone else’s platform to express it. I honestly don’t understand why people think they have a right to Tweet any more than we have a right to post on Free Republic.
When you have a defacto monopoly platform (like Twitter and Facebook) you become more of a public airwave and less of a private entity.
Even if it were just Twitter it’d be somewhat understandable but EVERY major social media outlet banned him within a matter of days. YouTube, Facebook, google, amazon and Apple. Tell me that isn’t collusion to silence opposing viewpoints.
“Constitutionally, Americans have a right to free speech, but they don’t have the right to someone else’s platform to express it. I honestly don’t understand why people think they have a right to Tweet any more than we have a right to post on Free Republic.”
Times change brother, social media platforms are the public forum and they need to be forbidden from arbitrarily banning people. They also need to be held accountable to their terms of service as well.
“Constitutionally, Americans have a right to free speech, but they don’t have the right to someone else’s platform to express it. I honestly don’t understand why people think they have a right to Tweet any more than we have a right to post on Free Republic.”
So what will you say when an ISP prohibits its uses/customers from Free Republic?
Wrong.
When those platforms enjoy the same protections against liability under the DMCA that cell phone providers have, you'd better believe we've got a right to engage in legal free speech.
These platforms are at this point daring President Trump and Congress to break them apart.