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The thing about social media is that it's a privately own, privately operated space. It's not the publicly operated town square. It's more of a mall food court. If you incite violence in a mall food court, the owner of that food court has every right to make you leave.
This is part of what baffles me so much about the cries of First Amendment and free speech. The First Amendment guarantees you can say what you want—and that others will respond as they want.
But not on the private property of others. Social media is not your property.
But not on the private property of others. Social media is not your property.
It's odd that libertarians and conservatives want, what? A dismantling of the rights of the companies who own these platforms, in the favor of government-mandated rules?
Ultimately, I think this is the end of one era of the internet and the beginning of a new one. We will have the rednet and the bluenet, entirely different spheres. Everyone can construct the internet they wish for themselves, with the right bubble and confirmation biases.
Do I think there should be a government-operated internet? I have to think about it, but I don't think so. Does that make me some kind of tech libertarian? I also don't think so.
