They shouldn't be able to do that!
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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Lol so forcing other people to serve your content is free speech, in your mind?
If you're censoring someone then you don't want free speech. If you're hosting a platform for discussion and you start banning people and deleting posts etc, you're being authoritarian and you are demonstrating that you don't think free speech should be allowed.
If a private citizen removing your content from their own privately owned server is interfering with your right to free speech, then forcing a private citizen to serve your content from their privately owned server is forced speech, by the same arguments.
Which makes you an authoritarian demonstrating that you think forced speech should be allowed.
Simple as.
You're allowed to say it, but I'm not forced to repeat it on your behalf using my servers. You can say it using your own servers, or the servers of someone who agrees with you.
The right to not say something is an aspect of free speech that you don't seem to support.