Twitter’s banning of Trump: The privatization on the public square
Content posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram may feel public, but it is not under the First Amendment protection since these platforms are private.
US President Donald Trump taps the screen on a mobile phone at the approximate time a tweet was released from his Twitter account, during a roundtable discussion on the reopening of small businesses in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, June 18, 2020.(photo credit: REUTERS/LEAH MILLIS/FILE PHOTO)ByHERB KEINON