• hector@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    20 hours ago

    Well the companies that own social media have a right to moderate as they see fit, and the government has a right to force them to regulate speech behind the scenes. So, freedom of speech means dick online. I mean elsewhere, present company excluded. Reddit is a world better than the rest of them but they’re fucked too and clearly getting worse, as any company going public will be, even without fascists seizing absolute power and nothing left to stop them.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      17 hours ago

      The government doesn’t have the right to regulate free speech behind the scenes. It has the ability to, but it is considered a violation of free speech for them to do this. Not that anyone cares.