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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1124877)	3/16/2019 9:44:47 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578046

But what if that platform controls 90% of political speech? Isn't it better to allow all speech, than to silence political discourse and one side's political opinions? Our Founders believed so much in Free Speech in the public square, that they enshrined it in our Constitution as the 1st Amendment. Legal precedent for two plus centuries after has clarified and strengthened the public square concept and the right to free speech within it, even allowing truly galling speech in order to not encroach on free speech. Today, digital platforms are the public square. The US SC has even ruled that to be the case. Court arguments on this point just haven't reached Google and Facebook yet, but when they do, the US SC will rule that Google and Facebook are violating free political speech in their overwhelming censorship of conservative speech. I don't know what remedies will be put in place, but it's going to happen. All you have to do is re-read the Constitution and case law surrounding the issue of free political speech and digital media and you know it's coming. Until then, we're dealing with a massive blackout of conservative speech on digital social media platforms and an MSM 95% biased against conservatives. That is an existential problem for a Democracy.