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People have a First Amendment right not to have their speech limited by elected representatives. There's no such protection from "unaccountable tech companies." https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1141369892303757313 …
#1A wasn't just about constraining gov't censorship. It was about creating a social norm supportive of free speech in civil society, including businesses.
And the social norm is just that: social. The first amendment provides no legal framework for compelling private businesses to platform speech.
I thought #1A fed into the 'common carrier' regulations that compel telecoms companies to provide a platform for speech regardless of the customers' views. I don't see a principled distinction between AT&T versus Twitter in this regard.
I'm worried that any legislation on the subject will go terribly wrong.
But isn't the position of all of these tech companies that the speech *isn't* theirs? You can't claim protection as a content-agnostic platform and then also claim that limitation of that same content violates your 1A rights.
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