Because they aren’t the government. If Twitter was actually violating the first amendment, where are the conservative lawyers taking the cases up? Why didn’t the Trump administration go after them?
Do you think the conservative platforms like Parler, gab, and truth social are/were violating the first amendment too? And CF?
I have said things, here on CF, that were my opinion and got reprimanded for doing so. However, others, stating their views can also be reprimanded for similar contravention of the rules here.
CF does not reprimand one person and not another.. as twitter does.
Answering your point about other platforms... Many right based channels must flee YouTube and Twitter in order to state well know facts without being gagged and muzzled.
Thing is.. when Gab, Rumble, Parler.. started coming out.. the left lost their minds, took them off of the Apple Store and android Play store. Gab even had the banks refuse to allow them on line monetary support...
Talk about persecution of the right.
The left will do anything they can to keep anyone from presenting the truth to a society that they want to keep in the dark... tell them what to think... tell them what is "right" and what is "normal" and conceal the fact that there are opposite and equally valid opinions the should be allowed to be heard.
When you are as big as Twitter.. you must understand the very real ability that you have to totally control what the world hears, believes or accepts as truth.
With this power comes the responsibility to allow anyone to speak their mind.
If I want to stand on the street corner in Toronto and go on and on shouting that the moon is made of cheese... so be it... That's my right.
These platforms are now soap box type places for people to talk. It is unethical to muzzle anything that one small group of powerful people don't agree with.
You can do that at the kitchen table in your house.. but not at a public park or street.