Oh, look, another response from Thorentis. blacksqr wasn't the person who brought up the First Amendment; it was Sarah A. Downey. For the millionth time: People who complain about a lack of free speech on privately-owned websites and refer specifically to the First Amendment should be criticized every time.
This is the equivalent of the teacher's pet pointing out a spelling mistake, without addressing the actual argument.
Her central thesis is not that the first amendment should prevent the issues she is addressing from happening. The debate around what the first amendment does and does not protect is usually a diversion people use to avoid discussing the power that private companies have over our ability to express ourselves, and over which information is widely distributed and which is not.
The article writer is a lawyer. She should know the meaning of the First Amendment and her readers ought to be able to expect her to know. Her misstatement is evidence that she is arguing in bad faith.
It's not only the people on the other side of her argument who use the debate around what the first amendment does and does not protect as a diversion.
