Editorials & Other Articles

... not simply that. The constitution says that the government cannot take action "abridging the freedom of speech". Obviously there are more ways to abridge the freedom of speech than being arrested. One such way would be to confiscate the means one has to freely exercise speech. If we smash your printing press, we haven't arrested you. Or, say, conducting an IRS audit because the we don't like what you are saying about us.

And, of course, abridging the freedom of one platform is, in effect, abridging the freedom of all platforms. Because it says "you could be next".

The constitution very clearly supports a robust and full protection for freedom of speech.