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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by ookdatnog on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:28AM (#28585076)
My wording was a bit careless in my previous post: I didn't distinguish between censorship and free speech violations. If YouTube deletes your video for violating ToS, that can be called censorship (in the same way that a forum moderator removing your post can be called censorship), but it's not infringing on your right to free speech.

This is because your right to free speech doesn't entail a right to any particular platform or channel. Others, including the government, are in no way obligated to help you broadcast your speech.

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by swayvil on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:14PM (#28585480)
We might ask what good the right to free speech achieves.

And then we would ask if the behavior in question interferes with the achievement of that good.

Thus we avoid the merely semantic tangles.

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by ookdatnog on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:39PM (#28585683)
Sure, go ahead.
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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by ClumsyPilot on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:12PM (#28585997)
If your internet provider, phone operator, advertisement agency, newspaper and TV station all decide to "not help you broadcast your speech" then you have no speech.

Now, i know this is crazy, what if someone 'encourages' them to make the correct decision regarding not helping you? Someone with loads of money and inflience, that doesn't like your speech? Like an oil company, sensoring an activist, is that still legal?

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