Jeremy Stangroom

Imagine Google/Bing (search). Facebook, Twitter, ban any mention of Black Lives Matter on their platforms. Not a free speech issue? Really?

If private companies dominate public sphere (Habermas), their actions have fundamental implications for people's ability to participate...

in political & socio-cultural life. That involves issues of free speech, necessarily. If you deprive people of the ability to do things with

words, if you render them effectively mute in terms of the wider political culture of a nation, etc., then it's a free speech issue.

This is not "free speech absolutism". It's simply to recognize the in modern societies our main political forums are privately owned.