Thanks for jumping in, Tony.
Great article. I would like to cite this para, as it's a bit more straight forward, and neatly condenses what I've been trying to say on the Sphere for several months:
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Many of the reasons why Americans object to official censorship also apply to the suppression of speech by private means. If we conceive of free speech as promoting the search for truth—as the metaphor of “the marketplace of ideas” suggests—we should be troubled whether that search is hindered by public officials or private citizens. The same is true of democratic justifications for free speech. If the point of free speech is to facilitate the open debate that is essential for self-rule, any measure that impairs that debate should give us pause, regardless of its source.
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- [emphasis mine]