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rini17 on Jan 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

But we also have no right of public presentation on radio nor TV, it's fully up to the station owner. And it wasn't really a problem...or?

jonathanstrange on Jan 11, 2021 [–]

Yes, but as I tried to make plausible it's fundamentally different with online media. The analogy is flawed. If the majority of people had been present on radio and TV, had their air time and it would be completely normal to watch their shows, then excluding minorities would have been problematic.

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