FREE SPEECH vs. PERSONAL AUTONOMY
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Many people seem to be totally misunderstanding the difference between a Forum and a Platform.
A Platform can hold a monopoly and challenged as a public "property" (so to speak) in our new world. ie. In respect to Free Speech. ie. Reddit.
A Forum is a private space, accessed by the public and the owner has the right to run it as they see fit, in general.
It is appalling that so many people cannot understand the difference and the danger in conflating the two.
In some cases it's obvious that a few or more than a few people are well aware of this and trying to destroy everything deliberately.
In other cases, it's unblissful ignorance.
You haven't actually explained the functional difference between a forum and a platform. THIS is a privately owned space accessed by the public. And so is twitter, facebook, youtube and the rest of them.
Now, show me one of these publicly owned "platforms" where people are legally entitled to free speech?
Platforms observe the obligation to provide access to ALL content that is not illegal in nature OR they become publishers. They cannot discriminate based on ideology or they forfeit their rights not to be sued for content or discriminatory behavior. The .WIN community is a Platform.
A Forum is a privately owned space accessed by the public such as OmegaCanada.WIN.
Platforms WILL have their Protections revoked if they continue to act as Publishers and continue to discriminate against those who exercise their right to Free Speech.