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Twitter and Facebook have privatized the public square. If you're denied from them your speech is nowhere near on a level playing field with everyone else. This
by Smithalicious 6y ago
Twitter and Facebook have privatized the public square. If you're denied from them your speech is nowhere near on a level playing field with everyone else. This gives them immense political power.
Regardless of what you think about how they're using that power now, it's naive to think that they will shy from abusing it.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago> Twitter and Facebook have privatized the public square. Yes, but they couldn't have done it without all the users who saw value in their services. Frankly, I find it difficult to take seriously the people who act as though banning someone from one of these platforms is such an egregious restriction of their ability to communicate that it needs to be regulated by law. Of course, I don't actually use these services and, outside of a brief window in the 2010s, never have.