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Key Legal Question for Big Tech Censorship: Do Social Media Platforms Own Your Posts, or Do You?

Key Legal Question for Big Tech Censorship: Do Social Media Platforms Own Your Posts, or Do You?
A Facebook app logo in an illustration taken on Aug. 22, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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If you were barred from the road you take to work, would you care? Thankfully, those who pave our roads aren’t picking and choosing who uses them, but the same cannot be said of big tech. Social media’s expansion into our everyday lives has succeeded in replacing asphalt with algorithm, yet social media platforms are regularly blocking people’s access to the information superhighway by blocking what people can post as well as others’ access to those posts. Every year that our public conversations and debates become more digital, protecting speech online becomes more important.
Wesley Hodges
Wesley Hodges
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Wesley Hodges is an adviser for coalitions at The Heritage Foundation.
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