> What they do not do is guarantee you a platform.
I think this is a really important point. How I have framed this to others is: "the 6 o'clock news isn't required to give you airtime."
In the past, you could write articles to the newspaper, or contact the news and hope they picked up your story. There was not a right to be heard.
That said, I'm still not sure how I feel about what has transpired in the last week. Freedom of speech (as a principle, not in the US legal sense) has always felt like a core principle of the Internet.
I think this is a really important point. How I have framed this to others is: "the 6 o'clock news isn't required to give you airtime."
In the past, you could write articles to the newspaper, or contact the news and hope they picked up your story. There was not a right to be heard.
That said, I'm still not sure how I feel about what has transpired in the last week. Freedom of speech (as a principle, not in the US legal sense) has always felt like a core principle of the Internet.