Are web platforms the modern public square?

A fringe messaging board was taken down after the El Paso mass shooting, but if the internet is the modern public square, should everyone have their say, asks Dave McGinn

After this month’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio (31 people were killed and dozens injured), the online infrastructure and security company Cloudflare terminated its service for the fringe message board, 8chan.