You aren't following the conversation. The question was about how people online no longer protecting freedom of speech and instead repeating that "private companies can do what they want" line universally, which is bullshit for a handful of reasons.
I remember many long threads back around 2000 or so where people debated free speech itself every time an admin somewhere did something suss. Nowadays every time the topic comes up it's instantly shut down by that reddit-tier factoid.
Either try actually saying something or take your pills, moron.
Online speech is still protected by those same mechanisms. It comes down to for example Facebook's terms of service which you accept when you register, which say something like "you agree that we can delete whatever you say whenever we want". It is true that the law is always lagging back behind the progress of technology. The real problem here is that you can only properly exercise the right to free speech online if you make your own website, where your free speech isn't limited contractually. Perhaps it should be recognized in the law that Facebook, Twitter etc. have become so ubiquitous, they are the only online platforms where you can realistically express yourself and someone will see it (as opposed to a nearly invisible private site). That's an interesting idea, but I don't know how free speech could be guaranteed on those platforms. There would have to be a multilateral treaty that would create something like Facebook, but it would be an international organization created by the party states - only then would free speech apply to it, and even then the treaty would probably limit "hate speech" and such on that new platform. I suppose the biggest issue is that Facebook, Twitter, Google etc. have become the only ways to exercise online free speech in any meaningful way, and they are private companies.
Dylan Ross
That's a photoshop, genius.
Also I'm pretty sure that was a gimmick account from some regular user anyway, so your psychic lurking meter might not be calibrated there bro
