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by starspangled 483 days ago
Looks like the old "they're a private company, they can do what they want" chestnut is coming back around. Who could possibly have predicted this would ever happen?
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Are you trying to imply that some group of people you are skeptical of supported limitations on free speech with the defense that they’re a private company they can do what they want, and now a different company is doing the same thing and that was a foreseeable consequence?
Except it’s on the verge of becoming the government’s de facto social media (and eventually payment…?) platform.
There's n except about it. It was previously on the verge of becoming the governments's de facto censorship and propaganda platform. But apparently it was a private company and could do what it wanted.

People really should have thought a bit harder about that one.

> People really should have thought a bit harder about that one.

The peole who said it didnt matter if it was a private platform, free speech absolutism is absolute should also have thought about it a bit harder too.