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You really don't see the difference between an editor selecting one person to speak, versus a forum where almost everyone gets to speak?


> You really don't see the difference between an editor selecting one person to speak, versus a forum where almost everyone gets to speak?

There is no difference. If I invite people to come to my place to talk in some kind of forum, I have no obligation to let people who I think are disruptive or offensive stay, nor do I have an obligation to preserve any record of their words.


There's also an important difference between "your house" and a common open forum with tens of millions of people.


> There's also an important difference between "your house" and a common open forum with tens of millions of people.

No, not really. The only difference that's important is between forums run by the government and forums that are not. In the case of the latter, the people who run it have an extremely free hand.




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