I Think the First Amendment Applies to Government, Right?

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Law two 30 that protects the meatig companies from being considered as publishers, where they're responsible for what people post. How do you fact check and screen a billion posts a day, or whatever it is that people do on facebook and twitter? I seems impossible. And yet, thy they are making some editorial decisions. They are screening people, they are kicking people off their platforms. So i don't have a the solution, but, you know, i do think there are some legislative changes that are be required.

Shermer, Weiss, and Bartning discuss: why we need the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) when we have the ACLU, the SPLC, etc.; Richard Dawkins canceled by the AHA; hate speech as violence; Liberal and Conservative attitudes toward free speech and how they shifted; private vs. public speech; government censorship vs. cancel culture; anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right; QAnon; Israel and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions); What happened at The New York Times?; why free speech is foundational to other rights; and why we need to judge people based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin (or any other immutable characteristic).