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> So, because any website can potentially reach millions of people, all websites must be considered public spaces and must be coerced to allow all legal speech?

> So, because any website can potentially reach millions of people, all websites must be considered public spaces and must be coerced to allow all legal speech? Yes. When a few corporations dominate anything, they cannot be considered 'private' entities that can do whatever they want anymore. They are infrastructure, and they have to oblige by the democratic rules and regulations like how any large infrastructure company does. Free speech is no different. After consolidating a majority of the social space and literally gaining the power to set the public discourse, no company can be let to do whatever they want with that power. That would invalidate any concept of free press. Not that current 'free' press is any different and that it does not need a major regulatory crackdown. But it has to start somewhere, and starting from the companies who literally ousted the traditional press from the helm of public discourse should be a good place to start.

krapp 4y ago
>After consolidating a majority of the social space and literally gaining the power to set the public discourse, no company can be let to do whatever they want with that power. >Not that current 'free' press is any different and that it does not need a major regulatory crackdown. But it has to start somewhere (...) And so the mask slips and the agenda reveals itself. This is not about freedom, it's about control, and this is only the beginning. I wonder where it will end?
- unity1001 4y ago
  > This is not about freedom, it's about control, and this is only the beginning. I wonder where it will end? Yeah, its not about freedom. Who told you that it was. Society exists only because there is a commonly accepted framework for making a society and keeping it. You cant just do anything you want. Try sh*tting on the road in front of your neighbor's house tomorrow. Try doing it naked. Look how freedom is limited. That you internalized existing rules and restrictions does not make you any more 'free'.

krapp 4y ago

>After consolidating a majority of the social space and literally gaining the power to set the public discourse, no company can be let to do whatever they want with that power. >Not that current 'free' press is any different and that it does not need a major regulatory crackdown. But it has to start somewhere (...) And so the mask slips and the agenda reveals itself. This is not about freedom, it's about control, and this is only the beginning. I wonder where it will end?

unity1001 4y ago
> This is not about freedom, it's about control, and this is only the beginning. I wonder where it will end? Yeah, its not about freedom. Who told you that it was. Society exists only because there is a commonly accepted framework for making a society and keeping it. You cant just do anything you want. Try sh*tting on the road in front of your neighbor's house tomorrow. Try doing it naked. Look how freedom is limited. That you internalized existing rules and restrictions does not make you any more 'free'.