. >> jimmy hoover is a supreme court republican at the national law journal. thank you for the insight. >> thanks. 22-277, moody versus netchoice. mr. whitaker? >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court. internet platforms today control the way millions of americans communicate with each other and with the world. platforms achieve that success by marketing themselves as neutral forums for free speech. now that they host the communications of billions of users, they sing a very different tune. they now say they are in fact editors of their users' speech, rather like a newspaper. they contend they possess a broad first amendment right to censor anything they host on their sites, even when doing so contradict their own representations to consumers. but the design of the first amendment is to prevent the suppression of speech, not to enable it. that is why the telephone company and delivery service has no first moment right to use their services as a chokepoint to silence those they disfavor. broadly facilitating communication in that way is conduct, not sp