Sounds good, but too simplistic. It's often the case that whether you are listened to or taken seriously is wrapped up in social forces well beyond your ability to influence. Think the Jim Crow era in the American south.https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/969878622684237824 …
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Incidentally, this is why the idea free speech is merely the absence of govt interference is trite nonsense. If private institutions - eg, Google, Facebook - dominate the Habermasian public sphere, then being deprived access to their services is a free speech issue.
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If it turns out that you can't do things with words unless you have access to social media platforms, then not having access is a limit on your speech. If BLM were banned from Facebook, then that would be a free speech issue. This should be obvious.
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