[cherryturnover]

How can you exert your constitutional rights if the government allows companies to create/purchase/monopolize every avenue in which to express your rights? What if you had to pay a toll to utilize corporate paid sidewalks and roads? How could you protest the government? Likewise, the internet infrastructure we have today was created by the government, so it only make sense that the fundamental rights we have protected by the constitution be respected here as well.

I don't understand why many liberals defend a corporations freedom to silence speech but get angry when conservatives in the government do it. Six of one, half dozen of the other, it's still speech being silenced by someone more powerful than you. But one being a corporation and one being a politician doesn't change the fact that both limit freedom of speech protected by the constitution.

[ipv6ipv4]

“ I don't understand why many liberals defend a corporations freedom to silence speech but get angry when conservatives in the government do it. ”

Because it’s a false equivalence that has nothing to do with being “liberal”.

The government has the power of coercion. No corporation has that by law.

In general, you are conflating the right to free speech with the privilege of easy armchair dissemination of one’s speech. Simply, your right to say anything doesn’t extend to forcing the world to disseminate and listen to what you have to say. Frankly, that extension is very much 1984.

In extremis, Trump has the means to publish a newsletter and nobody is stopping him from doing it.

[cherryturnover]

If you have a right to bear arms, but no company in the country's sells a gun, do you have the "right" to bear arms?

The answer is: no you don't. Because the government enables these companies to do these things that enroach upon your rights while making people like you believe you still have said rights simply because it's not the government proper doing it. The government and through lobbying can influence and control a lot of what you do without legislation you know.

[not2b]

Every avenue? The right has Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, hundreds of local TV stations, and thousands of radio stations running conservative talk radio. They have no trouble getting their message out. On Facebook, most of the people with the highest engagement are right wing.

[cherryturnover]

Maybe that is because the United States is more conservative than you assumed

[not2b]

You can't have it both ways: either you are being censored and silenced for your views, or you are not.