> but rather than private entities should have the freedom to moderate their platforms. Do you think the Nazis were able to publish their positions in _Die Rot

> but rather than private entities should have the freedom to moderate their platforms. Do you think the Nazis were able to publish their positions in _Die Rote Fahne_? > One of the points asserted was that this requires us to agree to the point that "some ideas are harmful". Ideas are ideas. Ideas by themselves cannot be harmful. Actions have the ability to cause harm. Well, OK, the idea that large corporations merging their power with the political authority to insulate the population from harmful ideas, well, that idea is definitely harmful because it cannot exist separately from the action of chilling free exchange of ideas.