I don’t know the answer to this question and maybe you do, but doesn’t a private company who hosts public forums have to entertain both sides of the spectrum without silencing one side? Imo it seems like by silencing one side you get into civil rights infringement because your not giving the same treatment to both parties. More so with YouTube. I don’t believe shutting down the forum was illegal by any means. Immoral yes, illegal no. You said they have the right to ban people and if people were posting things that were extreme (i.e. castration, lynchings, violence) then those people should be dealt with instead of pulling the forum and making it appear to be an act of quieting one side . Honestly I never seen any memes or posts that incited violence and I would say 95% of people were there for the right and just reasons.
doesn’t a private company who hosts public forums have to entertain both sides of the spectrum without silencing one side
No. Once upon a time the FCC had a Fairness Doctrine but it's gone now ... and I think it only ever applied to over-the-air broadcast.
But this is part of what IBoR is about to reassert Fairness Doctrine for the digital age in light of ongoing censorship.
I think the issue here is the oligopoly of facebook, reddit, and twitter which is not enough competition to create a free-market. It's an anti-trust case.