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Are social media platforms like telegram carriers?
Gorsuch and Prelogar got into a rapid back-and-forth over whether social media companies can be considered common carriers like a telegram company. Gorsuch argued that despite being common carriers, telegram companies would argue they’re allowed to exclude some “bare minimum” amount of speech, but otherwise are “open to all comers.”
But Prelogar said it would be wrong to call those sorts of calls curation by the telegram companies. Unlike telegram providers, social media companies compile a large volume of content in a way that represents the companies’ own free expression.
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