The only solution is federal ownership of the physical infrastructure of the internet in the US - then the first amendment would apply without question. Due to the ineptitude of the Federal government and its own corruption, I doubt anyone wants to go down this path. But it is the simple fix.
The only solution is federal ownership of the physical infrastructure of the internet in the US - then the first amendment would apply without question. Due to the ineptitude of the Federal government and its own corruption, I doubt anyone wants to go down this path. But it is the simple fix.
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Psychical ownership only means the government will have the power to control or suppress speech, rather than just big tech doing it. Technically that should be against the first amendment but we know how the constitution doesn’t matter to the swamp, regardless of party (although one is worse than the other).
What needs to happen is that these companies should not have loop holes that allow them to be protected from the legal scrutiny of their actions by private citizens as if they were mere platforms/service providers/conduits while having the liberty to take editorial actions on what gets through in their service like publishers do.
It’s the perfect storm of Lose/Lose scenario for the people.
Either they should be on the hook for allowing all reasonable content so that they are protected from what gets published on their platforms by their users, or they should be declared publishers themselves and held accountable for their choice of what is published!