05-27-2022, 11:14 AM
The censorship/free speech thing is one of the knottiest of our current issues. On the most elemental level, where does the right of free speech apply? Does it apply equally to the "private" realm as it does the "public" realm (loosely using the Arendt-ian meaning of those terms)? I think most people would think not.
The world of social media has accentuated this notion to the extreme. Are Twitter and Facebook, for instance, entities that exist in the private or the public realm? If Twitter and Facebook exist in the private realm, are they not allowed to regulate the discourse that exists on their platforms according to their own terms-of-service?
This issue is going to be a long slow slog.
The world of social media has accentuated this notion to the extreme. Are Twitter and Facebook, for instance, entities that exist in the private or the public realm? If Twitter and Facebook exist in the private realm, are they not allowed to regulate the discourse that exists on their platforms according to their own terms-of-service?
This issue is going to be a long slow slog.
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."