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Were any laws broken by Twitter? Don’t businesses in the US have nearly every right to arbitrarily deny service to people (with a few exceptions when it’s explicitly denying on the basis of race, etc.)?

Twitter literally didn’t exist 15 years ago. How can a lack of access to Twitter be an an infringement on free speech then?

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The internet literally didn't exist 50 years ago. How can a lack of access to internet be an infringement on free speech then?

Television literally didn't exist 100 years ago. How can a lack of access to television be an infringement of free speech then?

Written language literally didn't exist ~5000 years ago. How can a lack of access to written language be an infringement of free speech then?

> The internet literally didn't exist 50 years ago. How can a lack of access to internet be an infringement on free speech then?

So the 14% of households with school-aged children in the United States without internet access don't have free speech?

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2018/digital-divide-among-scho...

> Were any laws broken by Twitter?

Yes, but not the ones you think. The FAANG companies are basically all illegal monopolies.

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