Again, the doctrine of free speech concerns solely the relationship between government and those governed, not between or among private persons or private organizations, such as social media platforms and their subscribers.Like private organizations, private social media sites are at liberty to determine who is or is not a member absent justification.This forum has rules and can kick people and ban them.No, they're a Company making a decision not to post kook conspiracy theory bullshit...
Then they're not a platform but, rather, a publisher.
This forum permits people to post all sorts of bizarre views because this forum is a PLATFORM. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are PUBLISHERS because they censor a plethora opinions.
Twitter, facebook and youtube can do the same - and you can also get off your ass, educate yourself, and build your own successful platform if your feelings don't like it.
And if they arbitrarily and unfairly kick and ban people who don't deserve it, based on their stated rules, and it makes it impossible to actually do what the site is designed for, ie have political discussions,
then they are assholes and morally and ethically in the wrong.
If the site were important enough that their misdeeds were a threat to the well being of the society, then society would have the right to respond.
If a private social media platform doesn’t want to have conservatives as members who spread lies, misinformation, and hate speech, then those individuals can be appropriately banned.
It’s idiotic to suggest that private social media platforms should be subject to government regulation because those platforms don’t want hateful, racist, bigoted conservatives as members.
Well, if we are to use your line of thinking. If they keep the censorship up they are going to fall flat on their faces. Many people are leaving in droves from YT and FB and going to platforms that don't censor such as MeWe and Parlor. I don't even consider myself a conservative and I can see how those such as FB and YT and Google spread their agenda and lie and censor people that are actually telling the truth and they are calling the truthtellers the liars.
Everyone knows by now that these so called fact checkers are nothing but BS and only push things that fits the Powers That Be Agenda. Or whatever you want to call the Cabal.
So in the end if these platforms want to keep censoring people they don't agree with or don't like truth being spread they will become a thing of the past. Many new options are coming available on a daily basis. All I do if I go on FB now is make fun of Mark Zuckerberg and see how many times I can get banned.
And THAT is the answer. Start a new social media venue or join a new one. The idea that private property would be co-opted because you don't like them treating like they own it, when they do, is ridiculous.
If I am censored in my free speech I will for sure go somewhere else. As many people are now. They are digging their own graves with their tyrannical platforms.
There’s nothing ‘tyrannical’ about how social media platforms edit their content.
That as a rightist you’re unhappy with how conservative hate speech is being edited isn’t justification to subject social media platforms to government regulation.
"Hate speech" is you justifying your side's bad behavior.
With bullshit.