In recent years, social media firms, financial institutions, and hosting platforms have denied services to disfavored customers, sometimes for political reasons
- The response from many quarters has been that people have free association rights and can generally do business as they please.
- But what if these outfits are private-ish, enacting policy on behalf of politicians to spare them pushback or allow for end-runs around constitutional protections?
- Few countries have strong protections for free speech, but their governments still find it cheap and efficient to deputize private businesses as proxy censors.
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