Re:deplatforming
By existing and giving every tom dick and Harry a platform, big tech companies changed politics, and our society.
Absolutely. Do you trust them to decide who has the right to be heard? What happens if their politics run counter to yours?
Or they can do what every loonatic fringe person did before the internet. Print out some leaflets and pass them out on a street corner, and write batsh*t crazy letters to the editor. Private companies don’t owe them a damn thing. I’m sure such people will find alternative means to spew their crap on the internet. Isn’t there already a twitter alternative catering to the people twitter is kicking off?
None of these cranks complained when they couldn’t get on anything other then public access cable tv.
The problem is that only the right-leaning lunatics are the ones being deplatformed. It’s naive to think that thought policing won’t spread to more conventional conservative thought over time. I’m not interested in a media landscape dominated by left-wing nutjobs any more than right-wing.
It’s fine to say private companies can do what they want, but liberals only seem to agree with that when it suits them. Ask them if a company should be forced to include access to birth control on the company health plan and it’s a different story.