Twitter and Facebook had the right to remove posts by President Donald Trump that amounted to incitement, but a total ban on Trump’s social media accounts goes too far, according to an op-ed by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and a frequent ABA Journal contributor. “I loathe much of what Trump says, but I do not believe he should be silenced,” Chemerinsky wrote for Bloomberg Law. He added that there is no First Amendment issue because the Constitution applies to government, not private actors. But he is troubled by the power that social media companies exercise over speech. (Bloomberg Law)
