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The title of the post is "In Support of Free Speech." I thought that kind of editorializing was generally frowned upon here?
by yock 10y ago
The title of the post is "In Support of Free Speech." I thought that kind of editorializing was generally frowned upon here?
- steveax 10y agoIndeed, cue xkcd 1357
- DarkKomunalec 10y agohttps://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ makes it seem like it'll be your peers that get your message silenced, but what if it's some board of directors for a conglomerate, that dislikes any attention to the environmental impact of their industrial pig farms/how much they profited from post-war contracts after the most recent invasion/their push for privatization of water sources? Almost all public speaking these days is done on private platforms, with ever fewer companies controlling them. Without them, almost no-one will hear you. The 1st amendment is just a legal codification of the broader goal of the free exchange of ideas. This goal is harmed by private censorship as well, even if it doesn't break the 1st amendment.
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- sctb 10y agoYes, thank you. We've reverted the submission title from “Shopify refuses to censor Breitbart”.