Social Media Corporations Do Not Have the Legal Right or Constitutional Backing to Curtal or Censor Free Speech

All these social media platform communities stipulated that they wanted your voices to be heard and that is how they got you all to sign up to their various forms and platforms of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Google etc.

When all these tech companies/private corporations believe that their rights to control the users (inhabitants) of these various public internet communities, platforms, and forums, then they are coextensive with the right of that (user)/ inhabitant/homeowner to regulate or censor its guests (users/members) is legally NOT an acceptable contention under existing laws and constitution.

As ownership, by any private corporation does not always mean absolute dominion. The more these private tech companies (owners), for their advantage or the advantage of a specific political party, have opened up their platforms, forums, and media communities (property) for use by the public in general and worldwide, the more do their so-called private corporation rights become circumscribed by the statutory, legal, and constitutional rights of those who use it.

As such, these private tech companies, or the owners of privately held bridges, ferries, turnpikes railroads or airplanes may NOT operate them as freely as a farmer does with his farm. These facilities are built and operated primarily to benefit the public by wanting the public's voices to be heard and to engage other members of the public in sharing feedback and open dialogues.

And thus, since all these private tech company operations are essentially a public function, they all are subject to State, Federal and Constitutional regulations, and laws already on the books.

Therefore, these private tech companies must be held accountable, under existing laws and the Constitution, for curtailing through their censorship or membership loss, which violates the liberty of free speech, press or religion of these users (inhabitants/people) consistently with the purposes of the Constitutional guarantees, State and Federal statutes, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

The right to exercise the liberties safeguarded by the First Amendment "lies at the foundation of free government by free men" and we must in all cases "weigh the circumstances and appraise the reasons in support of the regulation of the rights."

“Private corporations like the tech companies of today do not always mean absolute dominion. The more these private tech companies (owners), for their advantage or the advantage of a specific political party, opened up their platforms, forums, and media communities (property) for use by the public in general and worldwide, the more their so-called private corporation rights become circumscribed by the statutory, legal, and constitutional rights of those who use it.”

Source:

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES326 U.S. 501

January 7, 1946, Decided

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES326 U.S. 501

January 7, 1946, Decided