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The fact Twitter is a private platform places this outside the "Free Speech" debate as it's usually understood. That's the whole point: Twitter, as a private pl
by msla 6y ago
The fact Twitter is a private platform places this outside the "Free Speech" debate as it's usually understood. That's the whole point: Twitter, as a private platform, can self-censor expression by destroying your expression without owing you or anyone else even a figleaf justification. Any centralized platform can do that, and will, with sufficient provocation, or no provocation at all.
- z9e 6y agoUnfortunately however, Twitter and Facebook are the modern day public square. So we can say they're private and they can suppress speech because of that, but it doesn't remove the observation of how much impact that has on the public.