That said, I don’t think this problem is solvable under Capitalism and the privately-owned “public sphere”.
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If discourse is hosted on private land, people are within their rights to ask the owner “do you agree with what is hosted on your platform?”
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If, for example, a shopping mall permits an alt-right/neo-nazi stand, they are saying that they find that acceptable on their property.
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The core problem is that, under Capitalism, we lack a public sphere. All our public spaces are privately owned & that’s bad for democracy.
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(Because, remember, that for every Milo you want to silence, there are a hundred religious fundamentalists who want to silence you.)
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We will not win the war of ideas by silencing the ones we don’t like but by nurturing a commons where ideas can be freely debated.
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(That said, freedom of speech does not imply a freedom to compel anyone to listen.)
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but he didn't get the S&S deal.
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Not following too closely, to be honest. I was more supporting the point the article makes :)
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