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by noodles_nomore 1991 days ago
Clearly censoring political speech is an issue that cuts right to the heart of democracy. The idea that corporations should be in control of public discourse is foreign to us. Government embodies the will of the people through democracy enabled by free and fair discourse and so it has the sole authority to set the rules of discourse in the name of the people and there is no devious feedback loop at all.
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> The idea that corporations should be in control of public discourse is foreign to us.

This has been the case since the founding f the nation. Those businesses which controlled the printing presses, radio, and then television transmitters have always controlled the public discourse. Add datacenters to that list.