Tech giants free to censor content under US Constitution: Ruling

Tech giants including Google are free to censor content as they wish, a US court has ruled, in a landmark freedom-of-speech case concerning private internet platforms. The decision on Wednesday by San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit appeals court rejected a conservative news outlet’s claims that YouTube had breached the First Amendment by censoring its content.

The US Constitution’s First Amendment prohibits the government, but not private parties, from censoring free speech.