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And, I don't want my platform to say anything about this. See https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/terms#tcontent for the proper model.


> I don't want my platform to say anything about this

You should have the freedom to start such a forum without being regulated out of existence and join such a forum without fear of isolation. You should not be able to force other privately owned forums to adopt your view.


By this logic, it seems like you're asking Twitter to adopt your view. Screw mine and anyone else's and derank discussion that you don't agree with.


If they ask Twitter or some other platform to derank your view and manage to convince the platform to do so, that’s an end result of free speech.

One of the main arguments for free speech is that you let everyone talk without government interference and let private actors decide what are good and bad ideas.

Everyone in this post who wants these public platforms to be forced to host all speech sound like what they really need is to have these platforms to be nationalized and run with government rules. What’s confusing to me is the majority of the people I see who want these platforms to host all speech are also in the same group that thinks everything should be done by companies and not the government


This is exactly what's going on. Twitter censors one type of opinion and elevates another. People with the opinions which are currently being elevated are terrified of the potential loss of social power.

For what it's worth, I think this fear is misplaced. Unless Elon can figure out how to run Twitter without ads, woke-bigotry is safe as long as advertisers are using woke politics to distract from their evils.




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