1. A social media platform may not willfully deplatform a candidate for public office who is known by the social media platform to be a candidate, beginning on the date of qualification and ending on the day after the election or the date the candidate ceases to be a candidate. A social media platform must provide each user a method by which the user may be identified as a qualified candidate and which provides sufficient information to allow the social media platform to confirm the user’s qualification by reviewing the website of the Justice Department.
I see no reason for political candidates not to be subject to the same terms of service as any other user on a social media platform. This effectively creates two sets of rules: one for regular users and one for politicians. I am willing to consider forbidding social media companies from discriminating on political advertisments for specific candidates, but to completely forbid banning political candidates is a step too far.
