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> Defending their right to free speech isn't the same as providing a platform for it I have no mouth, and I must scream.

• theroqwpeo 5y ago
  You can still download the app, it's not banned from your phone. Some people just don't want to sell it in their store. You can't force people to sell your shit in their store. I don't really see what this debate is even about?
  • Igelau 5y ago
    > You can't force people to sell your shit in their store. I think this is actually the crux of it. Almost all communication now takes place on privately owned platforms in applications with curated availability. Metaphors comparing it to someone else's store (or someone in thread mentioned protests on your own lawn) are useless. They are so far removed that they aren't even wrong. Why? Because there is vanishingly less space for public speech/press. We have a problem where what we mostly agree is a human right is now heavily under the control of private interests, and you are not going to like it when the pendulum swings the other way.