Imagine Google/Bing (search). Facebook, Twitter, ban any mention of Black Lives Matter on their platforms. Not a free speech issue? Really?
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If private companies dominate public sphere (Habermas), their actions have fundamental implications for people's ability to participate...
in political & socio-cultural life. That involves issues of free speech, necessarily. If you deprive people of the ability to do things with
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words, if you render them effectively mute in terms of the wider political culture of a nation, etc., then it's a free speech issue.
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This is not "free speech absolutism". It's simply to recognize the in modern societies our main political forums are privately owned.
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Thing is, nobody who cites that stupid XKCD thing really thinks otherwise. If Twitter were to ban all feminists, for example, they would
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very rapidly, and correctly, complain that feminists were being deprived of their ability to do things with word, deprived of a platform
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that is fundamental to modern political activism, and that they were in effect being silenced. And, of course, that's a free speech issue.
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