Reply To: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government

CTL,
1. YWN is not general social media.
2. They could be designated limited public forums. See “Restricting Speech in the Limited Public Forum” put out by the UMKC law school.
3. You are correct that some FB groups are local but so are some restaurants. Yet they are subject to federal anti-discrimination laws if even one morsel came from out-of-state (Katzenbach v. McClung, 379 U.S. 294 (1964)). In any case, the public forum would be FB not the group.