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0 pointswallfacer1203y ago0 comments

If you haven't noticed the chorus of coastal media types asking for people they disagree with to be prevented from speaking in any public forum, then you are truly oblivious.

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shadowgovt3y ago

I've seen them asking for private forums to stop giving such folk a platform, because an organization can choose to do what it will with its private property.

But public forums? No, I can't say I have. In fact, I remember witnessing a President giving a large speech in a public forum that was followed by a riot at the Capitol (whether said speech was causal to the riot is still a matter for the courts). Nobody challenged his right to give the speech until the question of whether it was "incitement to riot" came up, and that challenge is unrelated.

ilyt3y ago

Define "public forum". Because both Facebook and Twitter have way more range than most of what would be defined as "public forum" does

shadowgovt3y ago

Range doesn't make something a public forum. Generally, control of the space by the public (or their delegates) does.

A letter to the editor of the New York Times has the potential to be seen by 343,000 households (a number down from 1.3 million). This never made the New York Times' letters page a public forum.

Twitter, for example, was at least previously accountable to shareholders. Now, it's very much a private forum.

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jshen3y ago

Or maybe we’re all in filter bubbles, including you.

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ska3y ago

> "chorus of coastal media types"

KIIS-FM has a choir?

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shadowgovt3y ago

I've seen them asking for private forums to stop giving such folk a platform, because an organization can choose to do what it will with its private property.

ilyt3y ago

Define "public forum". Because both Facebook and Twitter have way more range than most of what would be defined as "public forum" does

shadowgovt3y ago

Range doesn't make something a public forum. Generally, control of the space by the public (or their delegates) does.

A letter to the editor of the New York Times has the potential to be seen by 343,000 households (a number down from 1.3 million). This never made the New York Times' letters page a public forum.

Twitter, for example, was at least previously accountable to shareholders. Now, it's very much a private forum.

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jshen3y ago

Or maybe we’re all in filter bubbles, including you.

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ska3y ago

> "chorus of coastal media types"

KIIS-FM has a choir?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse