This Isn’t a First Amendment Issue, Twitter
Just Because Governing Online Speech Is Hard Doesn’t Mean It’s Forbidden by the Constitution
Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it would be using new tools to curb hate speech and harassment on its site. The news came on the heels of a tell-all report on BuzzFeed that chronicled how 10 years of dogmatic commitment to “free speech” combined with persistent mismanagement led to the popular social media app becoming “a honeypot for assholes.” Twitter’s former head of news, Vivian Schiller, told BuzzFeed, “The whole ‘free speech wing of the free speech party’ thing—that’s not a slogan, that’s deeply, deeply embedded in the …
