“protected class” is a legal term, and I know no legal precedent that recognizes any people espousing any political ideology as a “protected class.”
Race, sex and religion... categories for which people cannot be discriminated against. There are legal protections involved.
I never said that these platforms weren’t being discriminatory. What I said was that because people check the “I Agree” box when signing up to use them, they are pretty much agreeing that the site can censor them. As long as the Terms of Service agreement is the same for everyone... completely legal.
You kept mentioning the First Amendment. The First Amendment does not protect anyone from Twitter censorship. It protects people from censorship from the Government.
If you write a “Letter to the Editor” of the local news and the local news doesn’t print it, there is no legal recourse for you. Your “First Amendment Rights” have not been violated.
It’s not any different for internet platforms.
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and the FBI collude to silence
Conservatives and you don’t think here has been any violation
of Conservative’s rights.
You have heard of the FBI, right? You do understand it is
part of the federal Government, right?
If Black’s rights are protected by everyone including the
government and private businesses, why do I as a Conservative
have to endure a second class citizen’s status?
Comparing Twitter to a newspaper is a fallacious argument.
Newspapers cannot possibly publish every letter to the
editor.
Twitter can allow everyone’s posts to remain on the forum.
When information is blocked from being on the leading
forums, traffic wise, it affects public perceptions and
therefore elections.
“I don’t like what they are saying”, should not be a good
enough reason to silence people. If they are not lying
and what they are saying is true, it’s foundational to
our amendment rights. Why, because our Founders wanted
there to be open and free communication for this very
purpose.
It seems to me that at some threshold, these large
corporations need to be held to the same standards as a
utility. I’m not sure if that would protect Conservative’s
views or not.
This is too important an issue to simply allow these
massive companies to decide what will be heard and what
won’t.