• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think people have a right to be heard

    You are wrong. You have no right to a voice on a private platform.

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      6 months ago

      This just means privatizing public spaces becomes a method of censorship. Forcing competitors farther and farther away from your captured audience, by enclosing and shutting down the public media venues, functions as a de facto media monopoly.

      Generally speaking, you don’t want a single individual with the administrative power to dictate everything anyone else sees or hears.

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        6 months ago

        So if I own a cafe and I have an open mic night and some guy gets up yelling racial epithets and Nazi slogans, it’s their right to be heard in my cafe and I am just censoring them by kicking them out?

        As the one with the administrative power, should I put it up to a vote?

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          6 months ago

          So if I own a cafe

          More if you own Ticketmaster, and you decide you’re going to freeze out a particular artist from every venue you contact with.

          And yes. Absolutely censorship.

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            6 months ago

            Changing the scenario doesn’t answer my question.

            I came up with a scenario directly related to your previous post.

            I can only imagine you are changing the scenario because you realize what I said makes what you said seem unreasonable.