Every private space is owned by someone. That someone makes and enforces the rules according to their own interests.
You have no right to free speech in private spaces. If the owner of a shopping mall doesn’t like what your t-shirt says, they can have security escort you out.
“Social media” (Silicon Valley and venture capitalists) sold you the lie that shopping malls are parks.
They are not.
If you care about human rights and democracy, build and support parks not shopping malls.
@aral Are there truly any public spaces on the Internet though? Is such a thing even possible? Perhaps you could consider some government websites, but that's more like a government office building than a park...public property, but not really a public space.
The lucky few with municipal broadband connections have something like public roads at least to go visit these private spaces, but still no parks. The best we seem to have so far are places like Mastodon, a collection of private spaces with standardized connectivity...a bustling downtown compared to a shopping mall. But that downtown may still be connected by largely private roads...
@admin No. As I see it, public space on the Internet would be interconnection of individually-owned and controlled spaces. That’s the idea behind the Small Web.