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by Locke1689 5193 days ago
The important thing isn't that everyone can read it, it's that everyone can not read it. I think that limiting the freedom of speech based purely on speech which one can easily opt out of is pretty reprehensible.
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It’s still public speech, though, and not in any way personal. I was responding to a comment that the government reading twitter and blogs is akin to reading emails which is total bullshit.
True -- but what about mailing lists which can be publicly accessed? There's no "broadcast", but there's no protection either.