alt Hacker NewsFreedom of speech has literally never prevented a private company from controlling the content on its platform.
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eatsyourtacos • yesterday at 4:22 PM
"private company"
Ah you mean an app that the US forced to be sold to a private company that certainly agreed behind the scenes to certain terms of the government?
Yeah.. completely independent private company...
mothballed • yesterday at 3:32 PM
It did before the internet. See Marsh v. Alabama where publicly accessible ( private sidewalk) on private property was ruled the people there still could exercise 1A rights and could not be trespassed for doing so even if the owners forbid it.
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SV_BubbleTime • yesterday at 4:00 PM
Well… how do you reconcile that probably-truth with the Twitter Files? What do you call it when they private company censors at the demand of the government?
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Platform allows criticism of a government.
That government forces the platform to be sold to a billionaire ally.
Platform’s new owner immediately bans criticism of said government.
“Not a first amendment issue, it’s a private company”