US based firms should be subjugated to the rudiments of the first and fourth amendment and prevented under US law from cooperating with foreign interference designed to censor lawful political or religious speech.
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CNN's Oliver Darcy is suggesting that it was the MSM working together to take down Alex Jones. Think about that. The MSM in a coordinated effort pressured these social media platforms to take down a person who competes in their genre of business. Are these platforms going to perform a mass purge of all the other people that are in violation of their TOS? I'm guessing not because it's people like Alex Jones who has 2.4 million subscribers, over 36k videos and 1.5 or 1.6 billion views. Isn't it concerning that these platforms worked collectively to take out one person? Doesn't that clearly illustrate a bias? What about all the other people who are in violation of the TOS and how is it the MSM's job to pressure social media outlets? We already see a collective effort on the part of the MSM to take down a sitting president.
I'm hesitant to agree on libertarian grounds, but pragmatically... as much as we all like Bitchute and Dtube, etc, who's to say these platforms won't become everything the others have become if they become successful?
We have perfectly good rights that aren't being enforced. We don't need a new list (and I shudder to think what any list of rights prepared by government today would look like). We need our laws enforced.
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The Constitution is a document that delegates certain powers to the Federal government from states and individuals. The Bill of Rights (including the first and fourth amendments) makes certain limitations of government power explicit. It has nothing to do with putting limits on what an individual or corporation can do.
A corporation (and more importantly those that run it) have a right to express their first amendment however they see fit. They are not nor should they be obligated to publish the speech of anyone else. You, as an individual, have every right to exercise your free speech how you see fit. However, nobody else is required to give you a platform. You do not have a "right" to stand in my front yard to make your speech nor slap posters up on my house nor publish your content on my web site. Just because it is a large corporation vs. an individual does not change that principle. By the same token, if they want to let people from other countries speak on their platform or even if they want to only let people with certain political viewpoints speak on their platform then they can do that. Speech is not "interference". If they are lies, they can, should and will be called out as such. But an individual or a corporation refusing to give you a platform to speak on is not the same as government censorship that the Constitution protects you from.