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Perhaps but the harm is vastly different in scale. Private banning of speech doesn’t prevent the individual from stating those claims elsewhere. Government man
by plandis 7y ago
Perhaps but the harm is vastly different in scale.
Private banning of speech doesn’t prevent the individual from stating those claims elsewhere. Government mandated banning of speech does prevent that speech from being used elsewhere.
- golemiprague 7y agoThose laws need to be changed because those platforms are the de facto town square and they are a public space. The fact that this public space is maintained by a company is not different a a town square maintained by a private contractor. The virtual public space didn't exist until social networks but now it does so it needs to be treated like any other public space, doesn't matter that some private company facilitate it.