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There's no mechanism to force a private business to do a thing and the comparison you reach for is totalitarianism. It's incoherent. There probably should be a serious discussion about how access to platforms is mediated, but there's a pretty big chance that you end up asking for an expansion of government powers if you say the companies aren't free to do what they want anymore.
If the US antitrust machine hadn't been asleep at the wheel for a couple decades, it wouldn't be a problem. "There's no mechanism to force a private business to do a thing" - but bakeries have to make cakes for gay weddings - which I'm not opposed to. If the vast majority of tech companies are based in the echo chamber of Silicon Valley, and they're going to ban any thought that falls outside of that narrow range, th…
Re: EFF, Cory Doctorow warn about the dangers of de-platforming and censorship
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