Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
Why wouldn’t you want free speech protection to be regulated to private companies as well
Free speech is guaranteed in public space, not private space.
Just because you get to a public park in a privately operated taxi doesn’t mean the park is suddenly private. It would also be absurd for the taxi to have a say in how you spend your time in the park.
I also refuse to trust that any private corporation would have my best interests at heart, or that they would not use the excuse of policing hate speech to also interfere with discussion against their corporate interests.
The taxi has a say in how you spend your time in the taxi, however
If you enter the taxi and the driver sees that you’ve got a shirt with a swastika the driver can tell you they’re not taking you for this reason.
I didn’t ask that, I asked why wouldn’t you want that?
When did I say I didn’t want it? Just stating a fact.
I’ve asked twice now, idk why you’re intentionally avoiding the question now
Because you’re asking a question that’s irrelevant.
it’s literally the whole topic of the thread you’re replying to, you just misread it
No, I stated a fact and you’re asking me why I agree with it when I never said I do.
Bro you are dense. I can say water is wet when I’m asked a completely different question, doesn’t change the fact that doesn’t have anything to do with the question asked. I didn’t bring up if free speech is applied to private spaces, that’s an entirely different comment that nobody said, we already know the answer, hence why it wasn’t asked. I asked why you specifically, don’t think that should apply, which is why I asked that. You didn’t read correctly, and was asked three times now and are still avoiding the question for some reason, you either do or don’t support it and you are avoiding stating either which is the whole fucking point of this thread, and now it’s a waste of time because you don’t want to share your opinion for the sake of downvotes?