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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
It's accurate enough. What you don't get is some right to be amplified, but that is not a right that humans have ever possessed. It has always belonged to those who get to use the bullhorn and have an audience. It would probably be quite deafening if everyone was equally heard, so from a practical viewpoint there is probably not a way around that.
As long as you can steer your own traffic, you can decrypt, encrypt and go under the surface web if you need to do so. This is done today in many of the world's most oppressive regimes, it is only through control of access that you can theoretically block that.
Communicating with other people over the internet, twitter, or facebook is not an amplification, no more than using a telephone, or three way calling. Your voice does not get louder simply by posting on twitter, facebook, etc. In most cases, it barely even propagates (which is the word you really should be using) to anyone you are not talking with directly. Amplifying is someone on one of these platforms who have a large following, retweeting, or liking something someone says, or paying one of these platforms to advertise. That still falls into propagation, though.
I'm also not arguing it's a "right" per se. Free exchange of ideas is a principal that should have few restrictions. Again, you can talk about the extreme examples, but not everyone on Parler was a Nazi, not everyone was an extremist, and not everyone was a Trump supporter, but they no longer have access to their choice of communication device/service for internet communication which prevents the free exchange of ideas, and it was at the whim of a few corporations. That's a bad thing.
Last edited by itshotinvegas; 01-11-2021 at 06:52 PM.