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That's akin to arguing that Barnes & Noble are "arbitrators of truth" (wouldn't "arbiter" be the better word, btw.?) for not carrying books that cater to someone's specific view.
Use a 3rdparty browser and a privacy-oriented search engine, it's not that hard.
Who appointed the newspaper editor? The people who own the paper, that's who.
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So many posters here would be shrieking the opposite message if the Establishment Narrative Enforcement Management Industry were deleting the leftist opinion.
I am sure you'd want the government to be the arbiter, but in free market economies the private companies get to make their own policies. If you don't like their rules, you do not have to use their services and go to their competitor instead.
Twitter is a publisher. You own your content but you grant them a royalty-free license to publish your tweets when you sign up. Plus you grant them the right to modify your content as they see fit, which would include deletion. Twitter is totally within their rights to remove any post they want.
As long as they can be sued for the content, I am fine with it.
They are not arbitrating truth. They are saying that something that has been proven to be false or misleading (not by them) is not going to be put on their platform. It makes sense.
Think of it like this: The general contractor is not the arbitrator of good building practices, but they are the ones responsible to make sure those practices are followed. Similarly, big techs does not decide what is truth. That is decided by others, they decide how far outside those boundaries they will let their users veer.
Why should ANY Presidential Candidate be allowed to spread known lies that only bring harm to our country and put our citizens at risk. I don't care if your name is Biden, Trump, or something else. If you can't arbitrate yourself, then I guess it falls on the platforms to decide if they want to allow it.
The first line is me paraphrasing right of center people ca say 5 to 8 years ago.
I am not sure exactly how to handle it but measuring by sociological power, companies like FB and Google are straying well into monopoly and/or quasi public utility territory.
Im just amused right of center people have a problem ONLY when it finally affects them.
I've always had a problem with censorship and attacks on free speech..
Just because it's coming from a "private company" doesn't make it ok.
Especially when it's from companies like Google, Facebook etc, that like you say are a defacto public utility.
If they keep it up, they may not be private companies forever....
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