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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by IfOnlyYouKnew on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:46PM (#24891255)
"Content moderation" is about the speech someone running a website is willing to participate in. Requiring them to publish everything their users post would be what's called "coerced speech", which happens to be single biggest no-no of the legal concept of freedom of speech.

Forcing someone to say something against their will is considered far worse than preventing someone from saying something they want to say. That's how "warrant canaries" work: the government can stop you from disclosing the court order you received. But they cannot force you to continue saying that you never received such an order.

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by googthrowaway42 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:52PM (#24891294)
I think you're stretching the idea of compelled speech to the point where it loses its essential meaning. Compelled speech is when someone forces you to say something, not when you are prevented from disallowing someone to say something under their own name on your website/property.

When I comment on HN I do not comment as HN itself.

What you're talking about seems like an application of the idea of private property rights (i.e. kicking someone out of your house/office for saying something you don't like).

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:04PM (#24892155)
> "Forcing someone to say something against their will"

As many on HN have said in the past, corporations aren't people. Speaking about their will makes no sense.

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