On: How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

[ip26]

Your right to say it (& not be jailed)

Not your right to be provided an audience

[srveale → ip26]

Exactly. Can you demand to be broadcast by your local TV station? Can you demand that your letter be published by your newspaper?

The right to a platform has never been guaranteed. The only difference is that with social media, your message is broadcast first and moderated after.

[glimshe → srveale]

Interesting examples - both Newspapers and TV Stations, for their public "platform" nature, don't enjoy certain libel protections that Social Media does.

FB's "platform" feature is largely listener-driven. You can still use FB and not listen to persons X, Y and Z. It's all posted by users, and users decide what to follow or read (except paid content). Not like TV Stations and Newspapers. That's what Social Media companies have been telling us for a while!

But if we want apply usual standards of platform rights and responsibilities to FB, we should then require it to also be responsible for what's posted there.

You can't have it both ways.