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Matt Taibbi on Facebook and Google Playing the Censor
- throwaway8879 8y agoI'm still not sure what to think of all this. Facebook and Google are not public utilities, so why can they not decide what they allow on their platform or not? I suppose you really have to decide at what layer it becomes a violation of your rights. Would it be worrying if your domains were seized if you had something unpopular to say? Definitely. What if your cloud-host takes down your VPS after public backlash? That would probably seem unfair, but hey, you can go out and buy your own bare metal servers. What if you get censored/throttled at the network level, via ISP? My point is, if you get taken down on FB/Twitter/Google, nobody is stopping you from saying what you want through the use of the internet. Private companies can do what they want, as long as they're not breaking the law.