It has been a long, difficult road of court cases trying to find the right balance. We do not need Twitter et al to come on the scene for ten years and then decide they know better than the entire history of American jurisprudence.
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As for the actual legal question, I think it is actually harder than it sounds. On the one hand, MCAC v. Halleck would be in favor of Twitter. On the other, with the overwhelming importance of the internet, I could see Amalgamated Food making a come back.
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And I think an oft-overlooked point as well is that the First Amendment is but one of many such laws at play, as each state often has its own Constitutional free speech protections, which may be broader than the Federal.
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