Actually I do know, I just used the term common carrier in the old fashion POTS sense to avoid getting too technical. The old POTS system didn’t care much what you said or what your politics were they just carried your electrons so whatever said was said. Consider the modern telephone service - the cell service. These “social media” services have evolved to where they’re just a more entertaining version of your cell service. Currently they certainly share customer data with the cell services and soon will be one in the same. Given that, they have no business implementing any form of censorship. They shouldn’t care what words, pictures ideas are said & used just Granddaddy POTS didn’t. They’re there to push photons or electrons and nothing more.
I’ve seen this site purge many over the years. Was all that wrong? Or is it only ok when ‘our’ side does it?
“They’re there to push photons or electrons and nothing more.”
That’s what the carriers do, not the social media platforms.
The platforms host an application that requires membership to participate in, not unlike FR. They require you agree to their TOS to join and participate.
Everyone is free to participate in their service, or not. As long as you follow their TOS. If you don’t, they can kick you off.
And that TOS has nothing to do with the Bill of Rights.
There are 10’s of thousands of other applications available to everyone who has access to twitter and facebook.