Every private space is owned by someone. That someone makes and enforces the rules according to their own interests.

You have no right to free speech in private spaces. If the owner of a shopping mall doesn’t like what your t-shirt says, they can have security escort you out.

“Social media” (Silicon Valley and venture capitalists) sold you the lie that shopping malls are parks.

They are not.

If you care about human rights and democracy, build and support parks not shopping malls.

#SmallWeb

@aral agreed to a certain extent.

"Private" spaces that span the globe and are monopolies (eg. not many alternatives) should be regulated by law. Or better: it should be regulated by law that such monopolies may not exist.

If you get cancelled on Twitter, FB and YT your "free speech" is just a hollow phrase: no one there to hear it...

@aral in the end it's all down to the people: do you care about democracy, free speech and actual people?

Or do you want comfort, someone telling you what to think and how to act and make life "easy"? ...

@mark Edward Snowden once put it very well (I’m likely paraphrasing): “It’s about whether we want to live as adults or as children.”