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Of course not. Twitter also has a right to free speech and can exercise that by telling whoever they want to leave their platform.
by dpark 10y ago
Of course not. Twitter also has a right to free speech and can exercise that by telling whoever they want to leave their platform.
- duncan_bayne 10y agoStrictly speaking, that's them exercising their property rights, not their free speech rights.
- dpark 10y agoI'd say it's both.
- duncan_bayne 10y agoWell yes - they're free to tell them to leave (speech), and free to compel them (property). Interestingly some theorists consider freedom of speech a special case of property rights.
- dpark 10y agoIn the case of a platform like Twitter, blocking certain types of speech is also a meaningful expression in itself. Telling someone to leave is a form of speech in itself. But telling (for example) many environmentalists to leave would also express a view on environmentalism because of the effect it would have on the overall conversion. Shaping the discourse on the platform is similar to a media outlet shaping the discourse it drives with selective reporting.
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