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> Also, freedom of speech is a principle applied on the relation of people with the state, an issue for public law. This is about a private enterprise and its r
by avgcorrection 5y ago
> Also, freedom of speech is a principle applied on the relation of people with the state, an issue for public law. This is about a private enterprise and its relations with its users, subject to the regulation of private law.
Have you been living under a rock? This narrow, don’t-tread-on-me version of freedom-of-speech has been criticized in the Zeitgeist for a good while now; many people want the same principles to apply to private as well as state actors, equally.
Most people talk about the concept of free speech. Not whatever federal law that deals with it in the US.
- snerbles 5y agoThis narrow "Free Speech == First Amendment and nothing else" interpretation is quite common with those that advocate controlling the speech of others.
- diego_moita 5y ago> Have you been living under a rock? > has been criticized in the Zeitgeist Zeitgeist? As in Twitter/FB/Whatsapp and other social networks' blabbering? Then yes, I've been living under a rock. I proudly refuse to be part of that cacophony.
- avgcorrection 5y agoWell, you are on this site, no? I’m referring to the HN Zeitgeist (in part).