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| Topic | Would banning a social media app / site violate The First Ammendment in the US? |
| Zeus 09/28/20 7:51:28 PM #8: | Even if it would hypothetically violate the 1st Amendment under some circumstances, it clearly doesn't jive with the reasons given for the ban here. However, on a more fundamental level, social media platforms aren't considered press (something that's worked to their benefit in the past) so they wouldn't be explicitly protected anyway. Then there's the sub issue of these platforms being foreign-owned and foreign-based companies so they wouldn't necessarily have the same protections anyway. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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