No First Amendment can bind a private, global corporation. And whether it is removing talkRADIO from YouTube, or removing Donald Trump and Parler from pretty much everything even while Trump is still the President of the United States, then this is the economic order that you and they wanted.
You said that it was just a law of nature, like Physics. You said that there should not even have been a word for capitalism. You said that neoliberalism did not exist. Well, like barely policed anti-lockdown protesters looking for sympathy from those of us who had witnessed the real policing of real demonstrations, welcome to the outermost rim of our world. We have never not been cancelled, mostly by you.
But Twitter, Facebook, Google and Apple have now decided that they are publishers and editors, meaning that they can be sued. Or persecuted like Julian Assange, come to that. And Twitter, Facebook, Google or Apple cannot confiscate or destroy our printing presses. Nor could the British Government, if we set them up just far enough away, like the Recusants and Puritans of old. After all, Britain is no longer in the European Union, so that our return to print could be a double blow to the power of Nick Clegg.
In the last week, the situation in schools has confirmed what many of us had already known about the true level of Internet access in this country, anyway. I have borne a decade of ridicule for my idea of a new print magazine. But I am being proved right. Watch this space.
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