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I never thought about this topic to have an opinion on this, but this is the best take for sure!

• schoen 1y ago
  The "software is speech" idea was popularized partly by being used (successfully) as an argument in litigation about U.S. software export controls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_as_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_as_speech (It was later partly rejected by other courts in the DMCA anticircumvention context.) This argument doesn't imply that companies have to help you publish your software, because they might be entitled to some kind of editorial control over which speech they do or don't distribute. But it does at least imply that the stakes of such control are very high and that free speech norms may be implicated by them!