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@@ -23,4 +23,19 @@ particularly given its popularity with young people means that we must consider the internet's relation to freedom of speech and how we should, or rather shouldn't attempt to act on it. +A significant feature of internet communication methods is its +resistance to regulation to limit freedom of speech. Although some +popular sites have been known to restrict their users' communications +at some times to the cause of some alarm [@twitter-suspends;@merkel]. +These platforms, however, must be considered for what they are: +popular, for-profit, private sites. Howevermuch we are invited to +consider them as communications that exist for the common good of +humanity, they are not. In this light, just as a newspaper may publish +the content of its choosing, a website may host and not host content +of its choosing as a private enterprise. For those who are not fond of +such measures, there are other platforms which do not moderate users' +content to such an extent such as the site 4chan, but they therby +naturally have content that others may find distasteful +[@4chan;@moot]. + # References and bibliography |