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Free Speech only protects you from the government, not other people and corporations and colleges, etc. Internet companies can ban you or shut down your account

• AnthonyMouse 11y ago
  > Free Speech only protects you from the government, not other people and corporations and colleges, etc. Internet companies can ban you or shut down your account or censor you if they don't like your speech. "Internet companies" can't ban you from the internet, only from their own sites. You can make your own site and they have nothing to say about what you put on it. They can't control what you say, only where you say it. Which isn't nothing, but it's definitely a different thing than copyright, where they can control what you can say regardless of where you say it. > I remember some politicians tried to use songs for their campaigns to have the artists complain because they didn't support the politician. But that kind of sorts itself out by itself then, doesn't it? If you use an artist's work you're giving them the stage. If they hate you, they're going to step out onto that stage and denounce you with everybody watching. If stupid politicians want to self-immolate like that then let them and there will be fewer stupid politicians.