Social media posts inciting hate and division have “real world consequences” and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted on Friday, following Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking programme in the United States.
Your first amendment protects you from the government. It does not protect you from actions taken by companies or other people based on your speech.
When government is coercing companies to censor information it is censorship, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Exactly. I can say disgusting things all I want in public, and I can absolutely be shut down on private platforms like SM for saying the exact thing without there being a violation of free speech.