After the events that took place at Capitol Hill, there was of course going to be hell to pay. On January 6th, what can only be described as a riot took place, with citizens unhappy with the certification of Joe Biden as president storming the Hill. While this will certainly go down in the annals of history, the thing that I wanted to talk about was the blowback. In the wake of this, Donald Trump was impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives(the first time in history), and Parler, the social media site for conservatives, was essentially blacklisted. Removed from the Apple store and the Google play store, and it's Amazon owned servers shut down, many people cried out that it was the silencing of free speech. This is the newest flavor of the same conversation that has been had since Ajit Pai took office, or Milo Yiannopolus got deplatformed. Are social media sites private companies, who can make their own rules? Or is this the new version of the town square, Free Speech 2.0? Does our current interpretation of the first amendment cover all that it should, and is it possible for those behemoths to moderate all the content on their platform?
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