This isn’t a matter of free speech. No one has stopped Alex Jones from spouting his nonsense. A few companies have chosen not to associate themselves with him. Does Rush let liberals spout their rhetoric on his radio show everyday? Does Sean?
For someone who claims to be as smart and well learned as yourself, you have a disappointingly sad understanding of what free speech is. How embarassing.
You didn’t go on the tour when you got here? I particularly liked the forum where we got free Amazon e-gift ‘cards’ . I ordered a new laptop and still had enough left over for a kindle paperwhite reader.
Sounds like those California laws that tried to give abortion clinics the right to advertise abortion inside an anti-abortion clinic and on every anti-abortion clinic billboard.
While there may be a free speech issue when a state government bans individuals from using social media, it would seem that there is no such issue when Twitter does the same because the First Amendment applies only to government actors.
However, the justices’ shockingly forward-looking views open a potential game-changing loophole.
Long ago, the high court established that state constitutions may provide more protection than the U.S. Constitution when it comes to free speech, including the extension of rights to privately-owned spaces.
In 1980, in Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a California Supreme Court decision recognizing that California’s Constitution protected the right of high school students to gather signatures at a privately-owned shopping center for a petition objecting to a United Nations resolution that said Zionism was a form of racism.
Driving the California court’s reasoning was a concern that traditional public squares — the old “Main Street” — were giving way to privately-owned businesses. Consequently, the speech rights that Californians enjoyed in these public Main Street spaces would greatly diminish if a town’s center of gravity shifted to a mall and its owners were able to restrict speech because it’s on private property.
So there is precedent for constitutional right to speech being imposed on private business.