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>People who get banned from one platform are frequently banned from others soon after, especially if notorious. Can you give us a few examples? >These compani
by _dibly 6y ago
>People who get banned from one platform are frequently banned from others soon after, especially if notorious.
Can you give us a few examples?
>These companies also all have content policies prohibiting the same constitutionally-protected speech
As someone has already pointed out to you, the constitution protects you from the government, not from the moderation of a private company who you choose to publish your opinions on.
>Censorship doesn't have to be binary to be censorship: an environment in which your reach is reduced to practically nothing if you have one viewpoint and amplified into the stratosphere where you have the opposite viewpoint is an environment antithetical to the purpose of the first amendment, which is about creating an open and honest marketplace for ideas
You just described every cable news outlet in the United States. The idea that freedom of speech means 'requiring neutrality' is just painfully misinformed. You can talk about literally anything you want on the internet. But you're conflating a few social media platforms with vastly different moderation policies, user bases, and business models into one mass of 'public communication'.
>There's nothing wrong with requiring neutrality from social media companies.
I couldn't disagree more. Who will be the decider in what 'neutrality' means? Because that's about as loaded of a political term as you can get in this day and age. I don't understand what an even remotely reasonable interpretation of this policy would be where individual private companies were forced to publish or barred from removing content that goes against their content moderation policy.