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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.

Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes

@aral But is more like your private garden (following your analogy), right? I guess that a good model would be for these small-web “tenancies” be afforded by the state or some regulated non-profit?

There also been an abuse of the free speech phrase that needs clarifying: it means you can’t be arrested/condemned for your statements, regardless of whether they are made in a private or public space. It never meant you can say whatever you want in a private space.

@aral Of course, big asterisk on “you can’t be arrested/condemned” since every country has limits or at the very least legal consequences of some sort of statements.

@alfonsomunozpomer #SmallWeb is about being a person on the web. Your expression of your personhood are the identity(ies) you own and control on the web. It’s the interconnections between these individually-owned and controlled places that make up public space on the Small Web. (So public space is not a place, it is the mesh of relationships between people.)

And yes, indeed, my goal is to see these places be considered as much a human right as housing and healthcare should be.