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> Public discourse shifted into "silence is complicitness - if you allow this speech on your platform, that means that you endorse it."

Public discourse? Or the loudest segment of the discourse most influential on Googlers?




The loudest segment of the discourse most influential on Googlers, but this caveat is usually inherent when we talk about "public discourse". (If you've studied Foucault, you'll recognize that power and influence are inherently tied in with the concept of discourse. Public speech happens all the time, but it only gets labeled "discourse" when it influences or is intended to influence society in some way.)


The way you put it above seemed to imply the discourse in society as a whole, not a narrow and unrepresentative segment of it.




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