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Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ? B

Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ? BTW Facebook and Google have both received large amounts of government tax rebates etc. for their datacenters, so there is some government involvement. e.g. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-microsoft-facebook-apple-and-amazon-get-2b-in-data-center-tax-breaks-economic-benefit-unclear/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-microsoft-facebo...

dlp211 8y ago
The cake shop is free to discriminate against Alex Jones for the sane reason the YT, FB, AAPL, and Spotify are.
- DuskStar 8y ago
  So, undecided then? The Masterpiece Cakeshop decision didn't really resolve the issue either way, just punted.
pulisse 8y ago
> Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ? In the US legal context, what determines the permissibility of discrimination is the grounds on which one discriminates.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
ikeyany 8y ago
Are you making up your own facts regarding the cake baker reference? I understand that it was ruled within their right to discriminate.
- DuskStar 8y ago
  It was not ruled either way - instead 'the Court held that penalizing the baker for this refusal to violate his religious convictions violated the principle that the government "cannot act in a manner that passes judgment upon or presupposes the illegitimacy of religious beliefs and practices." The Court emphasized the fact that the State of Colorado had permitted three other bakers to refuse to provide cakes that expressed sentiments opposed to same-sex marriage, condemning this disparity in treatment as demonstrating hostility to religious views.' [0] 0: https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/17/more-on-masterpiece-cakeshop-from-prof-m https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/17/more-on-masterpiece-cak...

dlp211 8y ago

The cake shop is free to discriminate against Alex Jones for the sane reason the YT, FB, AAPL, and Spotify are.

DuskStar 8y ago
So, undecided then? The Masterpiece Cakeshop decision didn't really resolve the issue either way, just punted.

pulisse 8y ago

> Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ? In the US legal context, what determines the permissibility of discrimination is the grounds on which one discriminates.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

ikeyany 8y ago

Are you making up your own facts regarding the cake baker reference? I understand that it was ruled within their right to discriminate.

DuskStar 8y ago
It was not ruled either way - instead 'the Court held that penalizing the baker for this refusal to violate his religious convictions violated the principle that the government "cannot act in a manner that passes judgment upon or presupposes the illegitimacy of religious beliefs and practices." The Court emphasized the fact that the State of Colorado had permitted three other bakers to refuse to provide cakes that expressed sentiments opposed to same-sex marriage, condemning this disparity in treatment as demonstrating hostility to religious views.' [0] 0: https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/17/more-on-masterpiece-cakeshop-from-prof-m https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/17/more-on-masterpiece-cak...