'Who are [Twitter and Facebook] to dictate good and evil if they are evil themselves?' Trump wrote of the massive social media companies.
The free speech rights in the Constitution's First Amendment largely prohibit federal, state and local governments from blocking websites, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. However, the U.S. still has laws banning sites that facilitate obscenity, harassment, sex trafficking and child pornography. The laws sometimes ban sites that share artistic or educational images of nude bodies, sexual health information and forums for sex workers.
Roya Ensafi, a University of Michigan assistant professor of computer science who studies government internet censorship around the world, said that the June 2018 repeal of net neutrality in the U.S. has set the stage for potentially blocking websites nationwide. "When the United States repealed net neutrality, they created an environment in which it would be easy, from a technical standpoint, for internet service providers to interfere with or block internet traffic," Ensafi said."The architecture for greater censorship is already in place and we should all be concerned about heading down a slippery slope."
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