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People have a right to speak, but they don't have a right to have their speech amplified by others. There is no right to broadcast. Mill would agree with this,
by sanderjd 5y ago
People have a right to speak, but they don't have a right to have their speech amplified by others. There is no right to broadcast. Mill would agree with this, assuming you could explain to him how broadcast media works, which didn't exist in his time.
- teakettle42 5y agoMill wasn’t talking about rights; he was talking about the propensity to suppress unpopular speech, why that’s dangerous, and accordingly, and the moral necessity (and implications) of open discourse.
- sanderjd 5y agoYes. And he's right about that. But I'm also right that private entities shouldn't be forced to broadcast things they don't want to.