Re:Dismantle the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Westmins...
by jfengel on Monday October 23, 2023 @06:26PM
(#37992449)
I'm quite certain that that's precisely what they would say.
Their closest analogy they would have to social media sites would be newspapers. Newspapers were never required to publish everything that came in to them. They'd find the notion absurd. They'd tell you to go out and buy your own printing press.
They might be distressed that a small set of private publishers would become so ubiquitous that they could be mistaken for being synonymous with speech in general. If it had occurred to them they might have given anti-trust legislation a firmer grounding in the Constitution. But that's a general matter of commerce, not specific to speech.
Their closest analogy they would have to social media sites would be newspapers. Newspapers were never required to publish everything that came in to them. They'd find the notion absurd. They'd tell you to go out and buy your own printing press.
They might be distressed that a small set of private publishers would become so ubiquitous that they could be mistaken for being synonymous with speech in general. If it had occurred to them they might have given anti-trust legislation a firmer grounding in the Constitution. But that's a general matter of commerce, not specific to speech.