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The right to not publish anything is just as important a part of the freedom of the press as the right to publish something. If the leader of the Proud Boys wr
by notatoad 7y ago
The right to not publish anything is just as important a part of the freedom of the press as the right to publish something. If the leader of the Proud Boys writes a white supremacist manifesto and the Washington Post declines to publish it, that's the freedom of the press in action. If the government were to step in and say "no, you have to publish this", that would be a massive violation of the freedom of the press.
When we apply the exact same scenario to reddit or youtube, everybody is up in arms about how they have a duty to free speech to publish every piece of racist garbage that gets posted.