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Originally Posted by dgatwood
Yes and no. If your preferred form of speech happens to be books, the ability to make that content discoverable in a place where people who read books are likely to find it is crucial to that speech actually being heard by anyone. So although Amazon cannot possibly destroy your right to free speech, if Amazon became malicious, they could easily undermine that right in a way that would cause you material harm. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one from an antitrust perspective.
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Sorry, but in America you have a right to speech (publish), but you don't have a right to discoverability. You have a right to not have the discoverability being artificially limited by the government, but that's about it.
Before the Internet, crackpots managed to publish all kinds of things. And managed to work out how to distribute them.