“If today’s social media were alive in the times of Copernicus...”
Thay’d be silent because their tongues would have been cut out.
Justice William Brennan famously wrote for the court in the celebrated libel law decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964):
Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide open and that it may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
Censorship destroys trust.
if big tech had been around during the age of Galileo the earth would be flat
Congress protects free speech. But on any social platform, owned by any individual or group they can determine what they allow or not.
That’s why it’s wise to stay off social media. If more right minded people did they they’d be starved for customers.