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Free Speech with Doug Lain

Political Theory 101

CHAPTER

The Impact of Social Media on Free Speech

If it's not possible to build an audience without using certain social media platforms that those social media platforms become better thought of as a utility. Because Twitter and Facebook get their revenue from advertising the advertisers also become a leverage point for getting them to act as if they're publishers rather than utilities for disseminating views. So I think you're right and unfortunately court decisions have gone against that argument in the past. The PragerU took YouTube or Google to the Supreme Court to argue that they had been censored because their videos were suppressed or taken down. But this Louisiana decision the injunction against the Biden administration compelling the federal government overall to cease communicating with social media companies in an effort to get people censored.

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