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by otterley 267 days ago
> In this case, The zionists are boosting a pro-israel narrative by excising free speech like mine - by banning Tiktok, then coercing Bytedance into selling their US subsidiary, and installing a IDF spokesperson to censor and moderate it.

Despite all the hue and cry to the contrary, your right to free speech ends at someone else's door. Free speech means that the government cannot censor you. It does not require that someone else allow you to use their megaphone to do it, or to share their megaphone among everyone equally. To claim otherwise misconstrues a century of First Amendment jurisprudence.

To be 100% clear: there is no First Amendment law in the USA that says that social media platforms' refusing to broadcast its users opinions equally violates their free speech rights. You can claim it does until your fingers fall off, but the law does not support this position.