Not sure I agree that big tech is government, but now that the government is an agent of big tech with the use of controlling free speech via their portal (could also argue that big tech is an agent of government), it seems to open the door for a constitutional argument that these tech companies are now under the umbrella of the first amendment.
That is essentially the core legal issue behind the State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al. lawsuit. If big tech companies are censoring speech at the request of the federal government then should they be legally treated as an arm of the government? It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court rules.
