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Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by AQuantized on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:12PM (#23242613)
If it could be guaranteed to be limited to the Alex Joneses of the world, I would wholly agree with this.

However, now that a strong majority of the influential communication that takes place in society is divided across perhaps 5 tech platforms, with 1 tech company controlling the ability to search for other platforms, it's hard to say getting booted off all platforms isn't functionally restricting freedom of speech.

At what point do we concede that allowing a small set of 'private companies' carte blanche over public discourse is a restriction of public freedom?

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Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by chillwaves on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:18PM (#23242642)
If a regular user can be banned from Youtube for violating their TOS, what makes Alex Jones special and immune from community moderation?

Either a site has the right to moderate its users or it doesn't.

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