Here is a bizarre claim from David French on yesterday's Yahoo!News:
Make no mistake, social media moderation decisions are free speech. Even the way in which social media companies design algorithms to feature certain kinds of content at the expense of others is a form of free speech. They have created communities that reflect their own private visions of what a marketplace of ideas should look like and how it should function, and the result is a series of apps and websites that have different cultures, different customer bases, and different moderation rules.
Source - https://news.yahoo.com/surprising-opinion-justice-thomas-may-174500857.html
I don't agree with that. Any abridgement of free speech makes a mockery of the concept of "a marketplace of ideas". It's censorship, no matter how or why it is achieved.
And it's a shame how that truth is being obscured by those who should know better.
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