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> Isn't the fact that twitter is NOT part of our democracy the crying call of the left? "It's not censorship because it's a private company and they can do what they want (as long as they only censor anything I don't agree with)!"

Lol, if you think the left is genuinely defending the rights of private corporations, I don't think you know much about the left...

Probably the defining ideological organizing principle of the left is social equality, which is the exact opposite organizing principle of corporations, that being profit over all. Corporations are organized as dictatorships; leftists prefer them to be organized as democracies of, by, and for workers. Corporations censor the free speech of their workers, restricting what they say and how they can organize themselves; leftists want to take away the power corporations have to do this.

Insofar you are hearing anyone you perceive to be on the left supporting the rights of corporations like twitter to do what they want, perhaps consider they are throwing the argument in the face of corporate friendly Democrats and Republicans who have created this situation themselves by granting corporations such power over our lives, and are now only complaining when it hurts them politically.

I'm waiting for the day when that's tackled honestly by those groups, because right now it seems to me that politicians want to force specific companies like Twitter to stop hurting them politically while still maintaining corporate power and the inflow of corporate cash into their reelection campaigns. Thy want to call Twitter a "town square" and a "public good", and carve out exceptions that would specifically limit its power while still maintaining the power of the corporations they prefer to wield it. Meanwhile they will argue vociferously that healthcare, education, housing, even roads and broadband aren't public goods and must be kept privatized or turned into private ventures.

Under our current system (not created by leftists), corporations are people too and have more rights and power than natural humans. Leftists will stop pointing out that corporations have this power as soon everyone else stops arguing that corporations should have this power.




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