By Luigi Zingales @zingales
"It would have been different if Twitter and Facebook had stopped promoting Trump’s tweets and posts (as they have systematically done until now to attract more customers on their platforms). This is in their editorial discretion."
"It would have been different if Twitter and Facebook had stopped promoting Trump’s tweets and posts (as they have systematically done until now to attract more customers on their platforms). This is in their editorial discretion."
But excluding somebody from accessing their platforms is tantamount to a telephone company preventing an individual from accessing the phone. It is an extraordinary limitation of his personal freedom, which can only be imposed by the legitimate political authority
following due process, not by private firms. The telephone example is not accidental. Twitter and Facebook are not random private companies, they represent (as the telephone in the past) a basic infrastructure of communication."
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