Thoughts on "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate"

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Being a new writer is tough. It is. It is like being a starving artist. Not everyone is going to make it. Not everyone is going to get published. This has always been the case.

It isn't censorship though. Again, everyone has free speech. But no one has to publish you.

No one is entitled to the soap box.

That is the difference. You are fighting against one losing the platform, the soap box, that they have. The free market dictates what will rise and fall. We, as consumers, have this power-- we can advocate for writers who need more exposure, books that need to be read, etc. We, as consumers, dictate the wages of people who are dependent on consumption. Writers are dependent on people buying books. We can buy their books regardless if they get deplatformed. We can spread the word about their books to people regardless if they get deplatformed. We, as consumers, have the power to determine which platforms, soap boxes, will rise or fall. If we think a platform has censorship, we can boycott it, we can encourage others to, we can destroy the "livelihood" of that platform.