Carl in Michigan
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No. Dont be an idiot. Go back and read the Founders intent on the first amendment.So if I wanted to post a video of a gruesome murder, or rape or some hard core porn does the platform need to let it go or do they have a right to block it?Do you understand how to use Goigle?I’d like to read the law that you are referring to. Can you post it?They dont have the right to make that determination for the public. Political speech is protected by the first amendment. They DO NOT have the right to censor political speech. That's the point of calling themselves a "platform"they aren’t breaking any laws by blocking content that they feel is fake news in regards to an election
Facebook and Twitter operate as PLATFORMS. They have responsibilities ad a platform and are given special protections as long as they dont interfering in the free access of information.
This is from Reson Magazine but do your own damn homework or don't waste everyone's time
Categorical immunity for platforms was thus well-known to American law; and indeed New York's high court adopted it in 1999 for e-mail systems, even apart from § 230. See Lunney v. Prodigy Servs. (N.Y. 1999).
But the general pre-§ 230 tradition was that platforms were entities that didn't screen the material posted on them, and indeed were generally (except in Lunney) legally forbidden from screening such materials. Phone companies are common carriers. Cities are generally barred by the First Amendment from controlling what demonstrators said. Federal law requires broadcasters to carry candidate ads unedited.
Publishers were free to choose what third-party work to include in their publications, and were fully liable for that work. Distributors were free to choose what third-party work to put on their shelves (or to remove from their shelves), and were immune until they were notified that such work was libelous. Platforms were not free to choose, and therefore were immune, period.
It guarantees your right to challenge the "king" and the church. That's basically it.