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by UncleEntity 829 days ago
If you have a solution that doesn't take away rights from large portions of the population whose only "crime"[0] is they hold opinions you don't agree with then I'm all ears.

The person I saw the other day with a "Fuck Biden" sticker on their jacked-up pickup truck has exactly the same right to express their opinion as someone who thinks them driving around in a gas-guzzling monstrosity is a crime against humanity. Now, if either one of them tried to impose their will on the other by, say, destroying the truck or, umm, attempting to sodomize the president then the government has the right/obligation to intervene but before then they should be absolutely powerless.

[0] obviously not talking about things like CSAM which is an actual crime

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Your entire argument here is basing that people have a right to express an opinion on a social media site which is categorically false. They have the right to express an opinion, sure, as does the guy with the sticker. He does not have a right to a digital megaphone with which to do that: that is granted to him by a platform like Facebook.
Nah, my argument is based on:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Nowhere is mention of 'amplitude' of speech.

If Facebook et al want to restrict what their users say then good on them, they are a private entity and can do whatever they want. Destroying these platforms because they allow speech you don't agree with is not the job of government.