i can already tell this is going to be exhausting.

no, tech platforms banning accounts does not violate the 1st Amendment. In fact, it's protected by the 1st Amendment.

yes, Big Tech monopoly power and content moderation decisions have profound implications for free expression

The fact that Apple and Google have so much control over what software you can load onto your phones is in itself a problem. I honestly don't know what the right thing to do is now that they have the power they have but I do know the world would be better if they didn't have it.

And I know that if our conversations about content moderation remained focused on individual moderation decisions concerning high profile accounts, rather than systemic / structural problems and the broader impact on marginalized voices, things are just gonna keep getting worse

I also know that content moderation is in many ways one small piece of a much bigger set of issues surrounding the role of Big Tech in our society and the harms being done by surveillance capitalist business models that are incompatible with basic human rights

And finally, I know that whether you think web platforms should be doing more aggressive moderation or think that they shouldn’t moderate at all, blowing up Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act won’t help your cause.