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Oh, I'm not saying it's rational. I'm pointing out that it's the current state of the neoliberal economic consensus. Companies can determine and who and what to amplify or block because Free Market fundamentalism outweighs human rights concerns, globally. > the façade of a private company being allowed to shut you down is somehow rational is nothing beyond absurd Indeed, it is, but that's where we are. > a mob disapproves In this case, it's not a mob. It's a handful of people who care more about making money than upholding rights. > there is no free speech, just what is culturally acceptable. "Yet if all cannot be of one mind—as who looks they should be?—this doubtless is more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate" - John Milton, "Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England", 1644 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/608/608-h/608-h.htm Free speech has always been constrained by what is culturally acceptable. |