Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:54PM
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I would suggest that should congress decide to pass a law requiring youtube to carry Rand Paul's videos, the Supreme Court would toss it out as an infringement of youtube's first amendment right to free speech. As they should. If the government can require private media to carry government messages, the first amendment is toast.
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Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by iammisc on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:43PM
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> If the government can require private media to carry government messages, the first amendment is toast.
Currently, the government is directly involved in Facebook and Twitter's moderation decisions, by their own admission, and the Supreme Court is doing nothing, so I don't see your hypothetical as being very realistic.