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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This is not "free speech absolutism". It's simply to recognize the in modern societies our main political forums are privately owned.
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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