Make No Law: "Deplatformed"

In the new episode of Make No Law, I speak with Professor Eric Goldman of the indispensable Law and Technology blog about the concept of "deplatforming": do you have a right, under the First Amendment or Section 230, not to be banned from social web sites or social media? Spoiler: no, definitively not.

Some key cites from the episode:

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Marsh v. Alabama, the "company town" case

Manhattan Community Access v. Halleck, the 2019 Supreme Court case definitely repeating the "private providers are not public" rule

Pruneyard v. Robins, the California Supreme Court case about shopping malls

Ralph's Grocery v. United Food, a 2017 California Supreme Court case demonstrating how drastically the Pruneyard doctrine has been limited.

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