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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Dealing With the Spaces In Between When one cannot discern where one ends and the other begins…. Several weeks ago we were presented with the news of Alex Jones being banned from various social media platforms. This raised an interesting question for libertarians: is this a free speech issue or a private property issue? A free speech issue occurs only when it is government that clamps down on speech. If the speech is occurring on private property, the property owner is free to decide if the speech will be allowed or not. There were many libertarian voices stating that it was a private property issue and that the owners of these various social media platforms had the right to decide who was or wasn’t allowed to speak. I was asked by one of these libertarians to weigh in on the matter, which I did not do at the time. It is such a “gotcha” issue for a libertarian to weigh in on, and one far more complex than a simple “free speech or private property” discussion. The complexity is introduced by the relationship between the government and these social media platforms – so intertwined that I defy anyone to say where one ends and the other begins – even to include the question of ownership (because ownership is not as simple as “the shares are registered in my name”). The Irrepressible Roth... Murray N. Rothbard Best Price: $6.00 Buy New $7.95 (as of 03:25 EDT - Details) One libertarian who understood that the question was not so simple was Justin Raimondo, who offered his views in a piece entitled “Challenging the Lords of the Internet.” A snippet: All this wasn’t good enough for Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), who demanded to know if the plan was to only take down “one web site.” …a direct threat had been made to these companies by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia), who sent out a memo listing all the ways the government could crack down on Big Data if they refuse to go along with cleansing the internet of “divisive” material. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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