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You have every right to stand on a street corner and preach whatever manner of nonsense you want.

There are two people doing that on the street below me right now (one is a charlatan peddling superstition, the other is a conspiracy theorist warning of the dangers of 5G). Your complaint in this context would be that my landlord isn’t giving you a stage and a megaphone?

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My complaint is that these corporations get wide legal protections because they claim to be an open platform. In reality there are ideologs within them that exert editorial control by exalting (by promoted content channels) or deriding by means of either outright banning or vote manipulation of speech. If they were publishers, I am fine with such behavior. Since they derive monetary benefit from the wide legal birth, I decry them openly as tinpot dictators.

Yesterday you wrote: "While I agree that we need more room for nuanced debate, this is not a wining argument. Our society needs more accountability, not less."... from a throwaway account that cannot "really" be deleted... you realize that, right?

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