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Izkata on Nov 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

> Spam actually passes the test of “allow any legal speech” with flying colors. Hell, the US Postal Service delivers spam to your mailbox.

We're not yet in I, Robot territory; bots don't get freedom of speech.

elevation on Nov 4, 2022 [–]

The constitutional "freedom of the press" allows all citizens to use machinery to mass produce their written messages for distribution to others; the initial realization of such a machine being the printing press.

So the freedom of speech doesn't belong to the bots but to the citizens who control them.

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