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I hope people noticed that you reserve for yourself the right to exclude people you disagree with based on private property and freedom of association but then
by Torgo 10y ago
I hope people noticed that you reserve for yourself the right to exclude people you disagree with based on private property and freedom of association but then restrict them from doing the same to you by categorizing yourself under a federal anti-discrimination law.
- norea-armozel 10y agoThe civil rights act of 1964 doesn't put obligations on private parties to contract with other private parties since said private parties by definition are private. Meaning that if I operate a club or some sort of prayer group I'm privileged to exclude or include anyone of my choosing so long as the fellow members of that group agree with my decision. Federal law on this is very clear and something that no one can argue otherwise. There's hundreds of cases like this which the federal government looks at and concludes rightly the scope of the Civil Rights Act limits them. So, if I want to exclude Peter Thiel from my prayer group I can god damn can and will, and there's nothing little Pete can do about it under federal law.
- Torgo 10y agocool story but facebook and twitter aren't actually private since they have open registration.
- norea-armozel 10y agoCool story but FB and Twitter aren't violating your rights denying your access to their site. Otherwise every bar tender who's thrown out people for drunken tirades is now violating civil rights (despite the case law that says otherwise). So unless you got a constitutional lawyer that has a solid argument against site-wide bans of users, I'm just not going to listen to you until then.