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They do have the right to dictate what can be said publicly, on their platforms. They can’t dictate who listens to you, but speaking and listening are not the s
by drivingmenuts 6y ago
They do have the right to dictate what can be said publicly, on their platforms. They can’t dictate who listens to you, but speaking and listening are not the same thing. The old analogy of “you are welcome in my living room until I decide you are not” applies here.
If you are finding it difficult to reach people, the onus is on you to find a way to reach an audience, not on them to provide it for you.
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoThat adage was from a time before a single company's "living room" could swallow the town square and part of the postal service in nearly every town across dozens of countries.
- krapp 6y agoIt doesn't matter. Personal liberty, freedom of speech (which implies freedom from compelled speech) and freedom of association (and even, arguably, property rights) are scale invariant. And everyone seems to have forgotten that those rights apply to the owners of sites and platforms as well.