Stop Capitalist State/Corporate Censorship

 Former ACLU president Nadine Strossen discusses Big Tech censorship with Sam Husseini:

"Even private sector actors are directly bound by constitutional norms, including the First Amendment free speech guarantee ... if they are essentially conspiring with the government doing the government's bidding."

Even when Big Tech isn't actually colluding with government, the state is involved in two ways: 1) if the platform is owned by a corporation, it has the privilege of operating only because the government has issued it a charter, which could be revoked on the grounds that it isn't serving the public interest; and 2) even if it's not incorporated, it can only exercise this power of censorship because the state is enforcing its private ownership of the means of public communication. It's this ultimate backing by state violence that makes Capital itself tyrannical, even where government isn't directly involved. Democratic values can best be enforced by nationalizing these platforms so that the First Amendment applies to them automatically.

https://husseini.substack.com/p/interview-with-nadine-stroessen-on

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