censorship ship should be illegal on platforms and physical areas that are open to the public and have a significant portion of the public using them

supreme Court has ruled on this before. ruling that company towns still had to allow free speech in the streets because they were the only place for people to talk. and because the majority of the public was using them..

means in a park in a town and 90% of the people in that town use that Park then censorship should not be legal in that Park. regardless of whether it is publicly or privately owned.

if you have a mall and a significant number of people or percentage of people in the town are using that mall then censorship should not be legal in that mall regardless of whether it is pro publicly or privately owned. That doesn't mean you're forcing them to do anything. You're simply telling them it's illegal to do a specific thing. You're not forcing them to do anything.

and it's obviously doesn't mean that they can't kick out somebody ranting and raving and causing a disturbance. if a group of Nazis Russian and start waving swastikas in people's faces that would be considered causing a public disturbance and that is not the same as free speech. if a group of antifa come in and start chanting loudly that would also be considered causing a public disturbance and would not be the same as free speech.

however if it is open to the public and a significant number of people or significant portion of the public uses them then no. censorship should not be legal for them regardless of whether they are government owned or privately owned. it was their choice to make it open to the public. That choice resulted in a significant portion of the public using there space that mean allowed to censor

and this also applies to Facebook. it is basically open to the public. anybody can create an account. and a significant portion of the public uses it. Facebook's own estimates save their user base is 2.2 BILLION users

they ARE the public square.

if want to spread a message or talk to people and be able to say something to other people really your only choice is to use Facebook. there isn't really an alternative.

even if there was it wouldn't matter. Because of how many people use Facebook. but there also isn't another alternative. which only bolsters the argument

Facebook has 2.2 billion users and over a billion users per month. they are open to the public. A large amount of the public uses them and frankly because of their size they even heard able to control the national conversation. based on that censorship should not be legal for them

YouTube and tw also fall into that category. open to the public and a large number of people use them..

what that means is that it shouldn't be legal for them to commit political censorship or really any censorship. and the FCC or some other agency with the resources should regularly audit them and audit their algorithms to make sure that the algorithms are not specifically targeting any one thing and that their policies aren't targeting anyone thing. The algorithms need to be audited to make sure that there's no bias. they need to be make sure that there's no blacklist or whitelist on accounts or Facebook pages. and their policies and how they implement them need to be audited to make sure there is no censorship specifically political censorship. this is a common sense law. there's really no argument against it unless you just basically a corporate lobbyist who wants corporations to rule the world because money..

it all starts with passing some kind of law or maybe Trump going around Congress and passing a regulation against major social media censorship. this is what needs to happen. and if your representatives are refusing to do it despite a significant portion of their base being fed up with the censorship then you need to stop getting behind your representatives matter who they are. you need to stop voting for them just because they have an r next to their name..

to write letters to them and make phone calls and get on their ass and make it clear that if they don't do what you're telling them to do you replace them with somebody who will. I think you need to follow through on that threat and if they refuse to do what you told them to do you need to actually follow through and replace them with somebody different. and it shouldn't matter who they are. doesn't matter if it's some tiny little red state senator or if it's Ted freaking Cruz. it doesn't matter if it's some random House member who got 3000 votes in his tiny state or whether it's Donald Trump. if they are your representative and they are not representing you they need to be replaced..