...I reiterated Peter's point about not being platformed on private property...something that you called "entirely wrong"
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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...
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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