> Whatever they call it, this is censorship.
By definition it is not. Only governments can censor. This is just a private entity making a decision.
You have the right to say what you want, but I don't have to let you into my living room to say it.
By definition it is not. Only governments can censor. This is just a private entity making a decision.
You have the right to say what you want, but I don't have to let you into my living room to say it.
You are confusing censorship with a breach of the first amendment.
IOW, censorship has always specifically meant government restrictions speech. It is only recently that censorship has been broadened to include no-governmental actors, and that broadening is not universally accepted.
If by 1946 you mean "only recently", then sure (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama).
The concept that no company be allowed to enclose the commons has existed ever since the concept of the commons existed; and the Supreme Court has ruled both this and other times that if a private citizen or company encloses the commons they're bound by the same First Amendment that the government is, for the same reasons.
The ruling only applies to restrictions on public rights of way (in this case, meaning the public easements over otherwise private property).
Supreme Court has ruled both this and other times that if a private citizen or company encloses the commons they're bound by the same First Amendment that the government is, for the same reasons.
No, they haven't. SCOTUS ruled that in limited circumstances, private property can be treated as a public commons if the property owner holds it out for general public use. Following the mall cases, many malls began restricting the acceptable uses on their properties, which is why you don't get harassed by political activists every time you go to the mall. (In a nutshell, open mall spaces are now designated as transit spaces rather than as general use spaces, and thus the entire lineage of SCOTUS cases no longer apply to privately held malls.)
What if we live in a WALL-E type world where corporations are so large and powerful they effectively govern society?
1 - The community was repeatedly infringing the TOS.
2 - Reddit has liability to what's being posted on it