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Funny how people tend to view things like malls and social media as public places. It's a mass illusion we all place on what is inevitably a biased corporate pr
by YCode 10y ago
Funny how people tend to view things like malls and social media as public places. It's a mass illusion we all place on what is inevitably a biased corporate product fully intended to make money.
It would be interesting to see what a municipal social media platform would look like.
- graeme 10y agoThere was a pretty famous course case in Canada on this point, on whether a mall could be useful as a public space. Court decided no, but a dissent lamented that there were no public spaces in many instances. I just searched, and the US Supreme Court has gone back and forth on this issue. http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/do-you-have-free-speech-in-a-shopping-mall http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/do-you-have-free-speech-...