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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by SirHound on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:04AM (#25670076)
There's right-leaning and then there's racism. Additionally, Reddit has the right to block whatever it wants from its platform, just as the mods here can delete posts etc.

Freedom of speech isn't the right to speak wherever you like. I don't have to let you speak on my lawn, on my stage. You just shouldn't disappear for disagreeing with the government.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by ng12 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:56PM (#25677346)
To me there's an obvious double standard here: there's a tacit acceptance that social media has the power to actively sway elections (e.g. FB in 2016). How could it be that banning certain political groups from these platforms is not a form of censorship?

To refit your analogy: what if your stage is the only stage there is?

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