People still don’t understand this. Apparently not even Clarence.
Your use of these services is not “free speech”. When you agree to use these services, you do so under a license agreement. That agreement explicitly states that the service can and will do whatever it wants with user submitted content. And you agreed to grant them license to do so. Explicitly in writing.
Free speech has nothing to do with this issue. User submitted content is not speech.
Read that last sentence seventeen times if you have to. That’s the point everyone seems to fail to understand.
User submitted content has been licensed to the service provider. You give it away, freely. The moment you submit the content to the service, poof, it’s no longer “yours”. You have no say as to what happens to it from there forward.
If you do not agree to those terms, you can not use the service. It’s that simple.
And for that very reason, no one should have used the service in the first place. Pay more attention to user agreements next time.
When the public square falls under the control of private enterprise, then the 1st applies and that is exactly what these platforms are nowadays: the public square.
People still don’t understand this. Apparently not even Clarence.
Your use of these services is not “free speech”. When you agree to use these services, you do so under a license agreement. That agreement explicitly states that the service can and will do whatever it wants with user submitted content. And you agreed to grant them license to do so. Explicitly in writing.
Free speech has nothing to do with this issue. User submitted content is not speech.
Read that last sentence seventeen times if you have to. That’s the point everyone seems to fail to understand.
User submitted content has been licensed to the service provider. You give it away, freely. The moment you submit the content to the service, poof, it’s no longer “yours”. You have no say as to what happens to it from there forward.
If you do not agree to those terms, you can not use the service. It’s that simple.
And for that very reason, no one should have used the service in the first place. Pay more attention to user agreements next time.
You're the one who doesn't seem to understand.
When the public square falls under the control of private enterprise, then the 1st applies and that is exactly what these platforms are nowadays: the public square.