“So what happens here is that we have a normative understanding that we should treat [the web] like public space—that you should have rights to speak, that no one should constrain your rights—but then you discover that, basically, you’re holding a political rally in a shopping mall. This is commercial speech, controlled by commercial rules.”
Is it no longer possible for technology companies to be politically neutral?

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