Meanwhile, we in Europe have American Billionaires constantly attacking any government or legal body that enforces their own national laws, by threatening to sue and throwing childish insults for suppressing free speech.
Many of us haven’t ever had legal freedom of speech in our constitutions, but the reality is we have a lot more than Americans right now.
Well the companies that own social media have a right to moderate as they see fit, and the government has a right to force them to regulate speech behind the scenes. So, freedom of speech means dick online. I mean elsewhere, present company excluded. Reddit is a world better than the rest of them but they’re fucked too and clearly getting worse, as any company going public will be, even without fascists seizing absolute power and nothing left to stop them.
The government doesn’t have the right to regulate free speech behind the scenes. It has the ability to, but it is considered a violation of free speech for them to do this. Not that anyone cares.
Meanwhile, we in Europe have American Billionaires constantly attacking any government or legal body that enforces their own national laws, by threatening to sue and throwing childish insults for suppressing free speech.
Many of us haven’t ever had legal freedom of speech in our constitutions, but the reality is we have a lot more than Americans right now.
It worked in America, so…
Well the companies that own social media have a right to moderate as they see fit, and the government has a right to force them to regulate speech behind the scenes. So, freedom of speech means dick online. I mean elsewhere, present company excluded. Reddit is a world better than the rest of them but they’re fucked too and clearly getting worse, as any company going public will be, even without fascists seizing absolute power and nothing left to stop them.
The government doesn’t have the right to regulate free speech behind the scenes. It has the ability to, but it is considered a violation of free speech for them to do this. Not that anyone cares.