The right to free speech is not the right to a receptive and interested audience. When Facebook or Twitter flags, deletes, or interjects their own editorial comment on your post, it is not an infringement of your freedom of speech. They are simply reminding you that you have voluntarily agreed to subject yourself to censorship…
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When you, say, read the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Econom…
When you, say, read the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Economist; or watch CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News, and so on; you are very much an audience to a conversation between and amongst institutional power. The topics addressed, the views expressed, are not yours; they are of interest to, and framed according to, institutional…