The “public square” is free for speaking because it belongs to everybody.
As long as a speech is said in a private place (e.gr. Google’s servers, facebook’s…) it is subject to money. It will never be free because it is not “public”.
Google, Facebook, Twitter have positioned themselves to be the de-facto public square by buying up their competition and making themselves effectively the only game in town for what they do.
As long as a speech is said in a private place (e.gr. Google’s servers, facebook’s…) it is subject to money. It will never be free because it is not “public”.