Whether your personal ideology considers that problematic has no bearing on the fact that change has occurred.
> This difference seems so obvious to me, I suspect you may only have a limited subset of "issues" in mind, such as the 1st amendment.
Free speech seems like an unlikely candidate for culture war status (and the ensuing cognitive behaviors), but it seems unmistakable.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/matter
Under the Verb definition, I see no reference to the Constitution.
Also, in places where the Constitution does not apply, does nothing matter?
Perhaps you and I have different meanings in mind for the word matter?
> No one cares if you can’t get an audience.
a) No one?
b) How did you come to know the feelings of all people?
You're free to move to places where the Constitution does not apply if you feel that will work out better for you. Here in the US, we take the Constitution seriously enough that a very large number of us would readily kill in its defense.
Yes. No one. If you can't get an audience, that means no one cares about your content. The only other option is that you have misrepresented your argument, and you, in fact, can get an audience. In which case there is no problem because you have no problem finding your audience.
Look man, there's an audience for rap. There's an audience for country. There's even an audience for heavy metal. But don't try to pawn that crap off on people who don't want to hear it. They have a right to turn the station, and the government must never constrict that right because "heavy metal can't find an audience".
If someone has 5000 followers on Twitter, is then banned, and then sets up his own platform, do you actually believe one can logically conclude that those people not finding him on the new platform is because they all simultaneously became uninterested in his content?
It fascinates me how certain topics seem to be able to disable the logical capabilities of even HN folks. Perhaps I should add this notion to the 2020 Predictions thread, I can't imagine others aren't going to start noticing this phenomenon eventually.
> Look man, there's an audience for rap. There's an audience for country. There's even an audience for heavy metal. But don't try to pawn that crap off on people who don't want to hear it. They have a right to turn the station, and the government must never constrict that right because "heavy metal can't find an audience".
I would love to know if you are able to realize that this is a distinctly different situation.
That seems a radical change: newspapers and other broadcasters have always been able to refuse publication.
I disagree that no "issue" exists. This is a distinctly different notion than "rights".
I find this (type of) conversation interesting from a psychology perspective, because the topic seems to render many people unable to see a distinction.