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Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’
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In all of those cases, you're still free to say whatever you want on your own instance, but that doesn't guarantee anyone else will want to platform it on theirs. Owning your own home doesn't mean you can just waltz into other peoples' and say whatever you want.
Edited to fix a typo and change the tone so it didn't sound accusational (which wasn't my intent).
Neither of those 3 points have anything to do with what I said. This isn't a conversation about you having to tolerate me, it's a conversation about what state actors can do to censor Lemmy. Which is very little, because I can host an instance out of my bedroom and do basically whatever I want.
I mean, it's not unrelated. You can scream into a microphone all you want, but if it's not plugged into anything (or no one's listening)...
I reject this analogy. It would be more accurate to say that you are free to go to any concert you want and I am free to host a concert. Discoverability is a problem, but that's not the point. The people who like my concert know where to find my concert and no state actor can make me unable to host my own concert unless they're willing to imprison or kill me. There are very few people who care about what I would scream into a microphone about but I know that the ones who do also know where and how to listen to it.