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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8399819" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Yet the government had a lot of practical ways to block speech that no private entity did on the scale relevant at the time.  Now a number of private organizations have as much or more power to do that.Look, I'm not saying there's no good reason for Facebook or Twitter to ever block someone.  I just think in practice its disingenuous to suggest the power they have in terms of controlling communication these days is any less than the governments.  Its probably, in practice, more.  And being private entities does not make that a bit less terrifying, nor intrinsically less harmful than China's ability to do so.</blockquote>