# Are social media's recent bannings a freedom of expression issue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 12, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-social-medias-recent-bannings-a-freedom-of-expression-issue/930330 "2021-01-12T14:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 206
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-social-medias-recent-bannings-a-freedom-of-expression-issue/930330/206 "2021-01-15T00:12:44Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > I specifically started a new thread with a different title to the old, closed one in order to talk about this different question. What “different question”? If you’re just trying to argue that the ability of private entities to legally restrict the speech of users on platforms that they provide is a (legal and constitutional) limitation on free expression, well, yes it is. Also, water is wet. What you haven’t done is to make any kind of convincing argument that it would be constitutional or beneficial to take away that ability from private entities. (The issue of whether there should be more and smaller private entities controlling such platforms rather than a very few very big ones is a separate, although related, matter.) > [@DemonTree](#): > > Start with these two posts: Yeah, both of those are about the oligopoly issue, not the core issue of whether private entities are entitled to restrict speech on their platforms. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-social-medias-recent-bannings-a-freedom-of-expression-issue/930330)._