Who controls Free Speech in Americans?
The United States is a country that highly values individual freedom, and individual freedom includes freedom of speech. The United States has also developed a strict and complete system of free speech.
Constitutional law textbooks in the United States, American writings on mass communication law, and the section on freedom of expression usually account for a large proportion. For example, in the more authoritative constitutional law textbooks, there is usually a quarter of the pages that discuss the issue of freedom of speech, principles - applications, that is, a large number of cases.
As a case law country, the creativity of judges in this regard can be said to be unsurpassed in any other country and region in the world, including the European Union. Any scholar who studies the theory of freedom of speech is doomed not to attain a very high level without studying American theories and jurisprudence.
But this set of theories that were canonized almost all over the world before the Internet as the United States reached its peak of national strength, was completely out of shape in the Internet era, especially in the era of mobile Internet in recent years.
On the issue of freedom of expression, whoever has the right to say the last word is gradually shifted from the courts and from the government to Internet service providers. The power of the government, the president, the "do" on free speech issues, the power to limit social media through executive orders like President Trump's, and the jurisdiction of the courts to say the last word on free speech are being fully transferred to Internet service providers.
During the transfer of power between the 45th and 46th presidents, President Trump was blocked by the social media in the United States and had no way to get relief, and the current experience of the American athlete is a clear proof of this.
Before the opening of this Winter Olympics, American freestyle ski U-shaped pool athlete Aaron Blunck listened to and watched a large number of reports from the mainstream media in the United States about the Beijing Winter Olympics and other aspects of China.
Then, he found that his account had been blocked on social media in the United States. Just two days ago, the U.S. team congratulated him on his birthday during the Olympics – Happy Birthday.
Banning — probably not at the behest of the U.S. team, much less by the U.S. government instructing social media — is not so much to say that it's a strict, traditional issue of free speech.
