Before electronic media America was born on the idea of liberty and freedom of speech. When someone wanted to be heard, they could go to the city center and exercise their freedom of speech. As our world began to revolve less and less around public space, we began to lose freedom of speech. Shopping centers, in most states, overruled freedom of speech and would prevent the exercise there of by prior censorship. This problem was addressed in 2 states, New Jersey, and California by laws and by the courts who ruled that if a location is used as a public gathering space, that the states could extend the right of free speech to these places. So some states did so.

Now, on the Internet, even this has been lost. Administrators have the power to quell speech and to do so without giving any reason.

I want to know the reason. I would like to see the reasons declared.

For undeclared reasons, the politics sub has decided to enforce prior censorship on some web sites. And the journalists who write for them are thereby suppressed. And yet these jouralists provide valuable information to the public. In comparison, any junk publicist can post some biased ad on Youtube and it gets through.

I would like see some due process around this. That is I would like us to know why each of these sites are banned. And why professional journalists individually are banned and I would like the politics subreddit and Reddit itself notify the sites and journalists on these sites that their work has been banned via prior censorship, whether it is by the subreddit or Reddit.

And I would like them to be notified of what steps they can take to fix whatever it is that has put them in this position. And given some remedial opportunity.

Thanks for reading,

-- Gonz