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> No one should be banned for content that isn't illegal It is almost essential for the protection of free speech that private entities can and do ban people f
by tzs 2y ago
> No one should be banned for content that isn't illegal
It is almost essential for the protection of free speech that private entities can and do ban people for content that isn't illegal.
When you've only got two categories of speech, (1) legal speech that is allowed everywhere and (2) illegal speech that is banned everywhere, there is going to be a lot of pressure by the majority to expand #2 to cover speech that is currently not illegal but that the majority things is repugnant.
By allowing private entities to ban speech that they don't want to have on their platform even if it is legal speech we have a third category between #1 and #2. That reduces the pressure to expand #2.