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It’s right next to the one for George Soros’s garbage disposal. That’s why my WiFi always seems to have a lower signal strength for a few minutes just after dinner time, right?
This is similar to space. Wish people would get this straight.
Publicly accessible places are not assumed to be public land. Example a shopping mall. A privately owned shopping mall is publicly accessible still remains the right to escort people out at the discretion of those who own it.
Just because a website is publicly accessible doesn't mean it is public domain
Last I heard, the baker lost that lawsuit. Guess leftists can have their cake and eat it too?
But everyone regurgitating the "Youtube/Google is a private company and can do whatever they want" line are just plain ignorant.
I pay my electric bill to a "private company" but they can't just shut off my power because they don't like me being a CD'er. The phone company can't turn off my phone because they don't like what I say over the line.
This is the information age after all... social media isn't just a little niche thing anymore and if the gods of Silicone Valley feel they can use their creations to control and manipulate the society as they see fit that's rather disconcerting.
But if people generally think it's OK too and give the tech gods carte blanche on the issue, they are incredible fools.
The thing about the baker is that the baker applied for a business license from the state. That business license was a contract between the baker and the state that the baker would comply with certain requirements of the state. The states in the cases involving wedding cakes had requirements that businesses could not discriminate against persons based on their sexuality. That's not true of all states, but some states do impose that as a requirement. The question then becomes one of balance. The bakers' rights versus the customers' rights.
I'm a liberal, and when these cases first came up, I sympathized with the gay couples. But I also sympathized with the bakers, and was thoroughly lambasted by other liberals. But I felt that cake decoration is often an artistic endeavor. I can't decorate a cake. And in that sense, the baker shouldn't be forced to create artwork that he doesn't want to create. On the other hand, baking a cake and frosting it doesn't require artistry. So to me, the baker and the customer should be able to arrive at a compromise that would allow the baker to comply with the state's requirements, and the customer could add whatever decorative work he needed to be happy after receiving the cake.
Youtube is a company. And it was the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case that corporations are just like people. If Hobby Lobby can have religious beliefs, than Youtube can have an identity that allows it to decide what content it wants to post, and what content it does not want to post. Moreover, Youtube and the other social media companies have clear terms of service that assert that, and their customers, including Mr Jones, agree to those terms of service
Mr Jones is free to offer his commentary and products in other venues. Nothing is stopping him from doing that. He has not lost his right to freedom of speech at all.
Then problem solved. Let them follow Alex Jones wherever he goes.
So you want Alex Jones to get more support and exposure? Interesting. All of that will happen organically because that's how the Internet tends to work.
These big tech companies are basically pleading for congress to step in with this move. They are threatening our first amendment rights as US citizens. This is “abridging the freedom of speech” in our constitution and the most important amendment that sets us apart and protects us from becoming state controlled (China, North Korea) or living in an oppressive state (Iran). Bad move here
Actually government already ruled. When the baker's rights to deny service to the gay couple was upheld. Bakery is a private company and has the same rights to deny service as the private companies of YouTube and similar.
Alex Jones and info wars can easily just host content on thier own servers and services.
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