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by MacsHeadroom 1987 days ago
"The logic" for me is that private censorship IS free speech whether I agree with it personally or not.

The point of free speech protections are to protect the stuff you don't like. Don't like a private business censoring? That's free speech.

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> The point of free speech protections are to protect the stuff you don't like

no, its to protect speech you don't like, not "stuff", or it could be abstracted to any number of maxims.

a private business cannot censor its own expressions, only those of others. The issue of censorship only cones up wrt publishing platforms discrimination on who they serve.