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>Other people have the right to free speech. Just to add on a bit to other replies, banning people from a private service, socially ostracizing them, vigorousl
by xoa 7y ago
>Other people have the right to free speech.
Just to add on a bit to other replies, banning people from a private service, socially ostracizing them, vigorously criticizing them, attempting legal forms of economic retaliation (like boycotts), etc are all part of Free Speech too. Free Speech is about not having physical force used to shutdown the market of ideas, because of the millennia of proven destructive effects that has. That doesn't mean all speech and ideas are of equal value though, far from it. The point is to push judging of that into softer spheres, where minds can potentially change (sometimes over generations) and room can remain on the margins for new things to put down roots, and where hopefully eventually higher value ideas can grow. But constant judging is still there.
Constant non-violent but vigorous efforts to resist propaganda and the like through revealing it and acting to counter and restrain it are real actions, and completely within the bounds of Free Speech.