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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by chias on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:14PM (#17702235)
Free speech does not guarantee a platform for your speech, nor does it guarantee that you are able to say the things you want to. Even setting aside "private vs government", it doesn't even guarantee that the government won't censor you. It guarantees that you will not be arrested (by the government providing you with this right) for things that you do say. Even this has a few exceptions, e.g. incitements to violence etc.

Perhaps you feel that it should guarantee more than it does, and perhaps you may be right, but as it stands it does not.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by tlrobinson on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:12PM (#17702875)
Did you miss the part where I said "I'm not saying private entities should be subject to the 1st Amendment"?

My point was "free speech" is not synonymous with "The 1st Amendment". The former is a general concept and the latter is one way we protect it in the United States.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by chias on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:05AM (#17706678)
I didn't. I was merely pointing out that "free speech" (as we know it) has nothing to do with what you are able to say, while you seem to be operating off of a different definition.
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