Jeremy Stangroom

If my twitter account was the only way people could do things with words, then my not letting you use it would be a free speech issue.

If that's your basis for comparison, then the google search results example you brought up isn't either, because there's always Bing

Okay, so if they were banned by all private companies dealing in search. No free speech issues?

Let's flip this around. Would you compel all search engines to display terrorist recruitment, bomb-making instructions, or child pornography

No, let's not flip it around. I think I've demonstrated why the actions of private companies can have free speech issues. That's all.

...but you're treating all free speech issues as the same, which they're not. That's almost objectively true.

I don't have the time to go into this much further, but fwiw, my view is that if private companies are involved in what Habermas termed...

the public sphere, then free speech issues are always in play. If de facto Facebook, Twitter, Google (search, etc) are how a society