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>One can believe private platforms have the right to regulate their content while holding the government doesn’t. This article makes it look like they are in s
by trashburger 6y ago
>One can believe private platforms have the right to regulate their content while holding the government doesn’t.
This article makes it look like they are in support of the former (free speech) when in fact they are in support of their own butts.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> article makes it look like they are in support of the former (free speech) Fighting for the First Amendment does promote feee speech. Without the First Amendment, free speech is dead. With it, it has a chance (but is not guaranteed).
- Karunamon 6y agoI would argue that free speech as a concept is just as dead in a world where most communication platforms are owned by large companies who enforce their politics on their users.
- claudiawerner 6y agoThe same principle that allows individuals to say what they want also allows companies like Reddit to disallow certain speech on their platform. It's not as though they're fighting for it to virtue signal. Besides that, you want to keep the flow of speech open, even if you bottleneck it yourself, because it gives you more range on what to allow and what to block.