Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
by kepler1 on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:39PM
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Where do our free speech rights say that you are entitled to free speech on a particular channel or someone's private media outlet?
Somehow the notion of rights is being misunderstood or expected to put obligations on people or entities that those rights do not apply to. This makes rights soft and hard to disagree with, and actually less clear.
You have the right to say something. You can go say it at politicians making a speech, you can write a letter, publish an article in some newspaper that will publish it. Not the right to say it on Twitter. Or the New York Times, or whatever outlet. You don't have the right / they cannot be required to enable your opinion.
Somehow the notion of rights is being misunderstood or expected to put obligations on people or entities that those rights do not apply to. This makes rights soft and hard to disagree with, and actually less clear.
You have the right to say something. You can go say it at politicians making a speech, you can write a letter, publish an article in some newspaper that will publish it. Not the right to say it on Twitter. Or the New York Times, or whatever outlet. You don't have the right / they cannot be required to enable your opinion.