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There is no free speech here, bluesky isn't the government, it can refuse your speech like a restaurant can refuse your order
by lm28469 1y ago
There is no free speech here, bluesky isn't the government, it can refuse your speech like a restaurant can refuse your order
- harimau777 1y agoThat doesn't work in practice when platforms like BlueSky serve as the defacto public square.
- lm28469 1y agoPublic square or insane asylum? Everytime I look into these services I have the same aversion as when I open LinkedIn, it reads like bots exchanging with bots sprinkled with a few real people caught in between unaware they're talking to no one and radicalizinf themselves in the process.
- root_axis 1y agoBlueSky is in no way a public square. It's private property.
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- nix-zarathustra 1y agoBlueSky is more a shopping mall than a public square: anyone can enter, but security can escort you out if you start causing an uproar.
- mothballed 1y agoMarsh v Alabama found that private owners might not have the ability to refuse protected speech on their publicly accessible property, so it's not so simple as just being able to declare they're a private entity and that is that. "In Marsh v. Alabama (1946), the Supreme Court ruled that a privately owned company town could not prohibit individuals from exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech and religion" I'm not saying bluesky is the exact same, but it seems pretty damn similar to the private sidewalk that the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation privately owned.
- zahlman 1y ago"Freedom of speech" exists separately as a philosophical concept, not as legal doctrine implemented by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The latter is something I have always considered a shockingly Americentric view. I have seen people go so far as to say that the First Amendment defines what free speech is — which is kind of like saying that the Second Amendment defines what a gun is.