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To: Flick Lives

Perhaps you don’t understand the concept of free speech.

The right of free speech restricts the GOVERNMENT from infringing on that right.

With free speech, we can say or write whatever we want, as long as it does not DIRECTLY call for committing a crime. Likewise, a website has the right to restrict its content to whatever the hell it wants. If that website does not print your piece, there are other websites that will.


89 posted on 07/27/2022 8:59:09 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

“a website has the right to restrict its content to whatever the hell it wants.”

This make sense when there is real fair competition among web sites.

However, there are a few web sites with billionaire owners who have a de facto monopoly over speech—they “own” the public square.

It took Teddy Roosevelt to recognize the reality of the monopolies of his day and deal with them harshly.

We need a Teddy Roosevelt today to take on the Big Tech monopoly mind-controllers—and destroy them.


93 posted on 07/27/2022 9:07:40 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ought-six

Perhaps you don’t understand the concept of free speech.

The right of free speech restricts the GOVERNMENT from infringing on that right.

With free speech, we can say or write whatever we want, as long as it does not DIRECTLY call for committing a crime. Likewise, a website has the right to restrict its content to whatever the hell it wants. If that website does not print your piece, there are other websites that will.

When you have the government, and specifically leftists, working in conjunction with Big Tech to control what can and can’t be said (ex. the active suppression on the Hunter Biden laptop story), then you don’t have a free society; you are in the textbook definition of a fascist society (aka corporatism).


95 posted on 07/27/2022 9:16:56 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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