> First Amendment establishes the absolute minimum amount of tolerance for a society to not be authoritarian.
In the context of Trump being upset at Twitter, it's the government wanting unrestricted speech, and trying to retaliate against a private company trying to hold the government accountable.
Trump doesn't want anyone correct his claims about legality of mail voting. He doesn't want any pushback against him threatening use of military. The concept of free speech is being flipped around here and weaponized to protect government's own pro-authoritarian messages.
Free speech is supposed to protect speech of the oppressed, not the oppressors.
Yes but ironically Twitter tags Trump tweets about election fraud just after another report of a letter carrier tampering with mail in ballots. There are numerous stories that don't get attention about problems with mail in voting because access media doesn't want a certain narrative.
At the same time, Twitter doesn't tag a Trump tweet about Joe Scarborough alleging an affair and murder of an intern/co-worker which is all wild speculation and completely inappropriate.
It's all obvious politics at this point, and everyone simply screams their sides' talking points.
I don't like the executive branch legislating, that is what the Congress is supposed to do. But far too long have tech companies straddled the line between publisher or platform, (soft censoring it's users/clients which i have a problem with instead of just removing them from the platform which i think is well within their rights).
Hopefully this opens up all these companies who editorialize their users content to class action and other legal opinions and actions. At the very least maybe the courts and the Congress will weigh in and we can get most of these grey areas removed. We might have less options for social media and news agencies and some might even be completely destroyed. Likewise, i think a lot of users will be removed and or deplatformed. But these are all costs we need to bear to finally get peace on the web.
In the context of Trump being upset at Twitter, it's the government wanting unrestricted speech, and trying to retaliate against a private company trying to hold the government accountable.
Trump doesn't want anyone correct his claims about legality of mail voting. He doesn't want any pushback against him threatening use of military. The concept of free speech is being flipped around here and weaponized to protect government's own pro-authoritarian messages.
Free speech is supposed to protect speech of the oppressed, not the oppressors.