Oh god. You really think that hasn't occurred to me?
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...but you're treating all free speech issues as the same, which they're not. That's almost objectively true.
I don't have the time to go into this much further, but fwiw, my view is that if private companies are involved in what Habermas termed...
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the public sphere, then free speech issues are always in play. If de facto Facebook, Twitter, Google (search, etc) are how a society
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conducts political discourse, if they are where the exchange of ideas takes place, etc., then if you prevent people from accessing them, you
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are depriving them of the ability to do things with words, and cf J. L. Austin (but also feminists such as Miranda Fricker), I think
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the ability to do things with words if fundamental to free speech.
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