How on earth did they arrive at that? I'm reading the text of the First Amendment and it's explicitly only talking about the government. These people call themselves Originalists?
"the constitutional law which says 'government cannot restrict free speech' is interpreted to mean also government cannot permit corporations to restrict free speech."
I assume that the government is arguing that they are allowed to prohibit private parties from restricting speech, not that the government is required to impose such a prohibition.
Therfore that act of censorship can be subject to govt regulations.
>They go on to claim the 1st Amendment has a role to play in determining permissible restrictions on corporate censorship
This ensures the said govt regs stay in the lane of common carrier regulation, and don't encroach into govt regulations that restrict speech based on the content.
Which prevents the govt from outsourcing govt censorship to corporations via these types of regulations.
Many of the more… extreme elements on the ground backing this crap doesn’t care about precedent as they believe that the rapture and end of the world is near. It’s bizarre and unfortunately a very real factor.