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No, but I can certainly imagine a printing company refusing to print something they didn't like, or a TV/radio station refusing to air something it doesn't like
by vertex-four 10y ago
No, but I can certainly imagine a printing company refusing to print something they didn't like, or a TV/radio station refusing to air something it doesn't like. The post office doesn't have to mass-deliver pamphlets for you at less than the cost of posting a regular letter if it doesn't like them.
One-to-one communication isn't the same as mass communication, and people have generally enjoyed a great deal of leeway when having private conversations vs mass media. Very little on Facebook is private - that's the point of it.
The right to free speech, if literally nobody agrees with you enough to help distribute your media, protects nothing more than your right to stand in a busy city square with a megaphone. That has always been the case - it's not a new phenomenon with Facebook. Those with radical ideas have always been silenced, and still are on a regular basis.