These Corporations are merely puppets. Since the Swamp is not allowed to censor they use these cutouts to do their dirty work.
Twitter, FB, etc: Uh, we don’t want to be “people” anymore if this could be bad for us and only remain so if it is always a positive and never a negative.
Not sure if that helps. For people the constitution is clear that no person can be forced to say something they don’t want to.
Person doctrine one reason get rid of Citizens United.
That's not what's going on.
The social media companies aren't stopping anyone from speaking, but they are saying they have the right to choose what they want on the platforms they developed.
Just like every other forum on the internet does.
There are lots of other places you can say what you want.
The issue that both the impending Trump/Coale class action suit and Dr. Shiva pro se cases advancing in the courts now address is the Big Tech firms actually acting for the government (on both the state and national levels) to effect the censorship that is of course unconstitutional for the government to impose directly.
That cat’s paw approach to implementing the unconstitutional has itself already been declared unconstitutional.
“Can people put their hand on another person’s mouth and censor them? “
If I recall correctly, some on this forum believe that when a speaker is on privately owned property, the owner can restrict the speaker’s right to free speech.
TV stations use the public airwaves.
Twitter & Facebook use a combination of the public airwaves and public land right-of-way utility franchises.
It all depend on if a Court decides that FB, Twitter, and YouTube are acting as editors when they censor content, and thus lose their Section 230 immunity from lawsuits.
If a business acts to put another business out of business, can it be sued for damages?
GREAT post; thread.
These Corporations are merely puppets. Since the Swamp is not allowed to censor they use these cutouts to do their dirty work.
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The coordinated effort to silence Trump’s message, his voice, the voices of his supporters, and stories damaging to Trump’s opponent, those efforts have a value as political assistance to the opponent. Trump should highlight the dollar value of the donation by specifically silencing political speech.
The first amendment is about government, not corporations.
Trumps lawsuit won’t make it past go.