Social media platforms, at least in their most common form, have a First Amendment right to curate the third-party speech they select for and recommend to their users, and the government’s ability to manipulate those processes is extremely limited, the U.S. Supreme Court stated in its landmark...
  • @w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    The founding fathers didn’t have cell phones, so they couldn’t have meant for messaging to be protected! /s

    If the 2A only applies to muskets than I guess the 1A only applies to hand operated printing presses.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
    1•27 days ago

    Messaging, at least between consenting parties, is speech. It is exactly speech. It is no different than talking, or writing a letter.