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Yes, of course, safe to say everyone on HN knows this.

Twitter banning Trump isn't such a big deal. He can get a web site and email service from AWS or other cloud providers.

But what if the cloud providers ban his web site and email?

What if backbone internet providers and data centers banned his IT team from running their own web/email servers?

There is no government run internet. It is all run by private companies. Which means that if private companies wanted to, they could restrict access to anyone they want.

This is clearly wrong. We either need to create a government run internet backbone + data centers, or to draw some line at how much power private internet companies have.

The Supreme Court could decide that the internet is so vital to the First Amendment in the modern world that the top N social media or internet infrastructure companies have to behave as if they were government run with respect to the First Amendment.