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Always enjoy the part of the free speech scale when commentators who've spent the last half a century arguing that the only real liberty is negative liberty (freedom from government intervention) suddenly decide - in this one instance - they're huge fans of positive liberties.
"But... But... But surely it can't be right for corporations to be able to control what access we have to our freedoms!" Welcome to the discourse, chum! Allow me to tell you about Coca Cola and groundwater supplies in Kerala & a saucy little thing called the East India Company...
"But in order for a freedom to be with having you've got to have the ability to exercise it?" Yep yep yep. Shall we sort out free childcare for people going on protests or voting first? Or some other structural hindrance to voting? They seem like a good place to start...
"But what about not being able to tweet?" I'm with you! Let's fix it! Let's make sure no one is so time- or technology-poor that they can't have access to Twitter!
"I just think that some things are too important to be left to private companies who are only answerable to their shareholders!" MAN, ARE WE GOING TO GET ALONG!
