20 Jun 2021 8:42 pm
FOS » 20 Jun 2021, 8:01 pm » wrote: ↑ consider the 'internet free speech' issue, for example.
I do not think it is hard to see that there is no difference between the monopoly Corporations that control social media censoring certain speech is in effect no different from the state hypothetically doing the same thing. I.e. you won't see the speech.
But it is apparently ok for private corporations to do this, cause that is liberal policy...right?
So what use is the first amendment anyway? If the state is not allowed to enforce free speech as a positive right, why did we bother writing that amendment down? What has it done for us?
I do not believe any liberal could actually answer that question coherently.
going back to this... NO, it is not liberal policy to censor people, EVER. Even in the most dire situations, like when Hutus took over the radio stations in Rwanda and used the airwaves to organize the mass killing of Tutsis, by giving coded signals and whatnot... even the most extreme hate speech must be allowed. That is liberal, to me.