Brian Gettler on Nostr: In Canada, jurisprudence has tended to hold that shopping malls are private space and ...

In Canada, jurisprudence has tended to hold that shopping malls are private space and that owners can thus banish dissent from within their walls.

This strikes me as a useful metaphor for much social media. Twitter, FB, Threads, etc. are corporate-owned. They are no more the "town square" than Square One, a large shopping mall not far from where I sit in suburban Toronto. And by insisting they are, we're promoting their false promise and deluding ourselves.

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