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Right to free speech means the government (not companies) cannot quell it. Are there government officials showing up at their doors?
How do you know the government isn't behind it and telling or encouraging it? The government could just encourage private individuals to do an end-run around the 1st amendment.
I never liked that argument that private individuals can squelch free speech. Why isn't Twitter considered a public accommodation like Christian bakers having bake gay wedding cakes? And why can't a private individual bar me from owning a gun or isn't allowed to search my property? They wouldn't be the government coming to my door infringing on my 2nd and 4th amendment rights.
Shouldn't a person have any property and intellectual rights to their ideas a website deletes?
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I just checked on my Twitter and all "alt right" people I'm aware of are still there. I think Twitter was talking about people who are alt right and harassing other users. Anyone who harasses and threatens others deserves to get banned.
I just checked on my Twitter and all "alt right" people I'm aware of are still there. I think Twitter was talking about people who are alt right and harassing other users. Anyone who harasses and threatens others deserves to get banned.
Except ISIS. Those guys are always free to carry on.
They are freaking out about this. I can get their point of view, but Twitter is a business. It is not required to let you use their services. But if they did that to the far left it would suck. I would have to see what sort of things they posted to really have an opinion though.
I agree that a business should be able to choose their customers. Any business. For any reason.
But I thought you believed that a business cannot choose their customers.
It depends on if he likes them. Some people should have more rights than others.
I think any non-essential business should have freedom of association.
Problem ,a business can have such bias, it can become a totalitarian type website excluding free speech. There is bias, and it can be used against our first amendment rights.
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