“Freedom of speech” means that you get to decide what happens on your platform whether or not the Trump campaign likes it.

I think all bookstores should stock ONE BILLION AMERICANS because it’s awesome. But free speech means they are free to choose. https://twitter.com/marc_lotter/status/1316467966045810693
Some publications (the good ones) reviewed ONE BILLION AMERICANS.

But The Washington Post deciding not to isn’t abridging my free speech, it’s them exercising their free speech.

The fact that I have strong feelings about the decision doesn’t change that.
Now you could say “okay, it’s a natural monopoly, it needs to be regulated as such.”

That’s how we treat network TV and especially how we treated it in the pre-cable era. But in practice that meant *more constrained speech* so as to avoid bothering people.
At any rate as a veteran of the “Obama wants to bring back the Fairness Doctrine” wars of 2009, I feel like it’s raining on my wedding day hearing this stuff from conservatives.
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