I believe you did actually equate the two, just implicitly rather than explicitly. May not have even realized you were doing it. That being said, I do agree wi

I believe you did actually equate the two, just implicitly rather than explicitly. May not have even realized you were doing it. That being said, I do agree with you that private corporations are under no obligation to respect free speech laws that mainly only apply to the government. Facebook is free to do as it pleases regarding who to censor or who not to. In regards to extending a platform to people who's ideas you disagree with... I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. First, it's often wayyy to difficult to draw the line between acceptable and not. Secondly, I'd rather have racists and idiots explicitly write out their views so that we can have a conservation with them rather than causing them to go underground where their views understandably fester and become more extreme due to persecution and lack of other viewpoints.