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RE: Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment

in #informationwar5 years ago

While I fully support decentralized platforms and think the behavior of big social media companies is pretty horrible, I don't see it as a second (or first) amendment issue. You are free to speak here and many other places. No private company is obligated to provide you a platform to speak or are restricted for expressing their views, no matter how big they are.

To me, to suggest Constitutional violations of any sort is to invite government intervention which is not the way this should go in my opinion.

I don't even really have a problem with credit card companies refusing to do business with...whoever. Or at least I don't have a problem with it in the sense that I think the government should do something about it. As long as government isn't using force to cause it to happen anyway. My solution would be to use cash. Now if the government is limiting cash transactions in some way then that's another story.

It's not that I really disagree with anything here, it's just that I think we have to be careful it is expressed in such a way that we aren't trying to get government to be more involved, even on "our side", other than by removing existing regulations. Big business shouldn't be forced to do business with anyone in other words. But calling them out for the pricks they are? Sure.

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