Alex Jones and Infowars gets 'disappeared' - are we headed in the right direction?

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The way I look at it, anything you get to say via someone else's media is in addition to your free speech.

You would only be in peril if companies had the power to censor you outside of the things they host, such as messing with your personal websites, your emails, your post, speaking in the street, or whatever.

I am all for the government making sure huge companies with massive influence are behaving themselves. But unless their services become public ones, I don't see how anyone has any right to speak through their medium unless they grant it. And if you break their TOS, they are legally and ethically entitled to react accordingly. If they're banning people who don't do this, then clearly that's a problem that I'd support investigating. This fuck-potato of a man doesn't seem to be one of them.

Whether we are in danger of social media "taking over the world" in some sense is another issue entirely. If so, the the law needs to change accordingly. But right now, I see some people conflating their right to free speech with their right to speak on every (big) private platform.