Or in other words, as I said in my article...
How everything online is private property dependant on a huge number of other parties.
This causes two major issues:
1. Your private platform can be taken away at the whim of a large company or ten, simply because your enemies made a big fuss about your beliefs on social media. If your reputation gets bad enough (or the false threats to the host or registrar common enough), 99% of companies will simply cut ties rather than do the right thing.
2. All platforms being privately owned means there's no way to get a message out if it's disliked by either the powerful people that own said platforms or a large percentage of the population.
Real life doesn't have these issues, because:
A. Public property is mostly unavoidable, allows freedom of speech and basically comes with a built in audience. Protests in the middle of the street or a public park have a guaranteed audience and cannot be blocked simply because one or more groups of people dislike the message.
B. Private property is truly owned by you, with the government generally not being able to kick you out because people complained about your views.
The internet's real freedom of speech issue is that everything is rented and nothing is truly either 'owned' or 'public'.
How everything online is private property dependant on a huge number of other parties.
This causes two major issues:
1. Your private platform can be taken away at the whim of a large company or ten, simply because your enemies made a big fuss about your beliefs on social media. If your reputation gets bad enough (or the false threats to the host or registrar common enough), 99% of companies will simply cut ties rather than do the right thing.
2. All platforms being privately owned means there's no way to get a message out if it's disliked by either the powerful people that own said platforms or a large percentage of the population.
Real life doesn't have these issues, because:
A. Public property is mostly unavoidable, allows freedom of speech and basically comes with a built in audience. Protests in the middle of the street or a public park have a guaranteed audience and cannot be blocked simply because one or more groups of people dislike the message.
B. Private property is truly owned by you, with the government generally not being able to kick you out because people complained about your views.
The internet's real freedom of speech issue is that everything is rented and nothing is truly either 'owned' or 'public'.