Free speech

Some of the high tech companies like Facebook and Twitter have found a way around the first amendment by calling certain speech misleading or inaccurate. The most recent example happened just before Christmas. “there was a small but noisy group of responders to our ads who didn’t like the fact we published books about Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and Amy Coney Barrett.” Facebook has banned a publisher for conservative children’s books, citing what it called “disruptive” content. Facebook later put the ads back up but this was after the big Christmas buying days. This is an ongoing thing with these companies and leaves the interpretation of the first amendment up to what someone considers disruptive. It is another road in the path toward banning speech that one disagrees with and this is the very essence of the first amendment and that being to challenge speech in open debate not to ban.