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by aaaaaaaaata 1540 days ago
This is not only repetitive, but anti-human pedantry.

Tell them to call it freedom of expression if you're so inclined, and keep supporting their fight for it.

Anything less is detracting from their point, seemingly intentionally.

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My position is that the moderation and content policies ("community guidelines") that private companies and individuals have is also a form of expression. For example, this explains the legality of op/ed pages of newspapers publishing the viewpoints which they choose to, and omitting others. You could sue Fox News or Twitter for censoring or omitting your viewpoint, but this case would not and, in my opinion, should not, be successful.
But how much, if at all, should a public company, without a single owner actually have. And if so, who should decide what the stances are? I mean the very people that now suddenly defend "private" property rights are generally the same who argue against personhood for corporations outright and in total.