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Is the only food store in town, who is ran by a racist, allowed to starve black families by refusing them service because of their skin color? Are tech compani

• freehunter 8y ago
  >Is a store allowed to refuse service to customers because of their skin color? In the US, no. Title III of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race (among other things). >Are tech companies allowed ban users because they disagree with their politics? Yes. Political ideology is not a protected class the US. The government can't tell you what you can and can't say, but private businesses are completely free to moderate content hosted on their platforms. But again, if you don't like the rules of Facebook/GoDaddy/Twitter/etc, of these private non-governmental for-profit businesses, you're free to start your own. You're making it sound like a global conspiracy when in reality it's more likely that Daily Stormer's talk of white supremacy and genocide is so distasteful across the board that major tech companies independently and simultaneously decided that these people were not welcome.
• ABCLAW 8y ago
  >Are tech companies across the board allowed to shut down, disenfranchise, silence, and marginalize people and businesses because they simply disagree with their lawful politics and ideas? What if those politics and incitements aren't legal (or ethical) because, at a general level, they violate the law specifically but the harm principle more generally? Would you be okay with taking action then?