<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Unless the government is somehow involved, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc.<br>
aren't suppressing free speech. They have the right to censor whatever we<br>
say, since it is their network we are using.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree in principle, but these platforms are working in conjunction with governments to suppress views they do no like. So, while I agree that a private business can run this way they should stop the pretense of being an open platform. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Matthew Crews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattcrews@mattcrews.com" target="_blank">mattcrews@mattcrews.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> I would say it has picked up in popularity for the same reason Gab<br>
> and so many others have picked up in popularity. People are<br>
> awakening to the fact that twitter and other main stream social<br>
> media networks (facebook, reddit) are censoring comments and<br>
> we are actively losing our right to free speech.<br>
<br>
</span>Unless the government is somehow involved, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc.<br>
aren't suppressing free speech. They have the right to censor whatever we<br>
say, since it is their network we are using.<br>
<br>
Conversely, we also have the right to not use such services that actively<br>
censor.<br>
<br>
Remember: On any service that relies on advertising revenue, the user is the<br>
"product", and not the service itself. The customer is advertisers.<br>
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