[whateveracct]

Why are you equating private entities deplatformimg vs government-controlled ones? They are fundamentally different things.

[m-p-3]

With companies out there that makes more in capital than some countries in a single year, the line between private entities and government is harder to discern.

How do you get a platform when it is the defacto platform?

[LocalH]

There is no effective difference between private and public deplatforming. Freedom of expression is harmed by both.

[plandis]

Perhaps but the harm is vastly different in scale.

Private banning of speech doesn’t prevent the individual from stating those claims elsewhere. Government mandated banning of speech does prevent that speech from being used elsewhere.

[whateveracct]

Not exactly.

If I don't want someone to speak at my event and ban them, that's not the end of the world. There are probably others who would allow them to speak.

If the government bans someone from speaking, there is no recourse.

This is the state of the world in the USA and one of our cornerstone negative freedoms.