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by shkkmo 1855 days ago
There are already tons of sites you can move to if you get banned from a platform, so there is no functional difference.

I get that you don't share concerns about deplatforming, but presenting this as a solution to those concerns is not accurate.

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> There are already tons of sites you can move to if you get banned from a platform, so there is no functional difference.

But none of those platforms draw a direct line between the constitutional guarantee of free speech and implementation of that speech. That’s the idea behind the public option: it’s the constitution with teeth, freedom in its purest form, while leaving corporations open to experiment with restrictions as the market demands.