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but judges are publicly accountable, while corporations (and their agents) can do what they want. Comes back down to the publisher/curator debate.


You can hold private companies accountable via secondary boycott. It's more complicated but it can be done.


Correct. Also, you won’t be dragged to a keyboard connected to a computer logged in to Twitter at gunpoint, but you sure will be dragged to court to face a judge at gunpoint. There are different standards of accountability that match the standards of compulsion and violence.


'Are held' and 'can be done' are obscenely different to conflate them.




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