The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Ari Cohn

“An Instagram post isn’t a cigarette. A YouTube short isn’t a shot of whiskey. Social media platforms and the information, ideas, and entertainment they connect people to aren’t tangible items that inherently and invariably have physical impacts on the human body. No matter how you feel about social media, the minute we start treating speech as if it were just another physical product is the minute we hand the government the power to decide what we can read, watch, and say. That’s dangerous — and the First Amendment forbids it.” (03/25/26)

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