[janitor61]

AFAIK the free speech that the United States enshrines applies to public venues, e.g. the street corner, radio waves, etc. As the current venue has shifted from public streets to private social media, the government should be required to create a counterpart to this emerging venue, otherwise the 1st amendment will be sidestepped based on a technicality (people willingly conglomerating on privately-controlled forums).

The government, if it values free speech, must create a twitter/facebook equivalent, open source it and apply constitutional protections to it as an optional alternative to private venues.

I am OK with specific venues curtailing free speech (FB, Twitter, etc) but I am vehemently against internet infrastructure curtailing free speech (hosting providers, ISPs). Together, the infrastructure providers constitute the internet and censoring free speech at that level makes the internet in violation of the first amendment, and I believe the internet was imagined as a public venue.