On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

Many people wrote to me in response to my last column, “The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech,” disagreeing with my contention that people have a right to have their speech distributed and magnified through social platforms and personally ranked feeds.

These people assert that when social platforms suggest specific voices to follow or content to show a user in a feed, the platform becomes a party to—and should be responsible for policing—what is highlighted.