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I would say yes. If they censor my calls, I would switch providers. But more importantly, if we as a country believe that’s wrong, we should pass legislation



There is legislation. It’s called common carrier. The argument is this existing legislation should be extended to social media as well.


We can’t even get it applied to ISP’s, I don’t know how we could stretch it to social media.

My guess is that any legislation attempting to make social media common carriers would eventually be found to unconstitutionally abridge the first amendment.




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