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Free Speech Rights Have Been Privatized
In 20 21, you were talking specifically in the wake of donald trump being kicked off twitter. A lot of people make the argument that these are all private companies. But here's the problem with that, our free speech rights have been privatized. Speech became digitized when it moved to the internet and now that's the place where most political speech occurs. The framers of the constitution could never have anticipated that that was going to happen. Back in their day, there were a multiplicity of places you could go for speech. And those town squares have all now been replaced by a handful of social mediocites.