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Welcome to Twitter, where the rules are arbitrary and the legal recourse nonexistent. All you can do is raise a stink and hope Twitter's PR department notices.

kypro 7y ago
And this is an extremely minor example of corporate totalitarianism. There have been people who have lost their businesses because payment processors like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal didn't like what they were doing despite operating fully within the law. It's strange to me how there are still so many people arguing that these are private companies and they have the freedom to destroy someones life if they don't like the business they run or their political views.
- pavlov 7y ago
  I mean, they are private companies and thus free to choose who they do business with, as long as it's not discrimination against very specific categories of individuals defined in law. If something needs to be a public utility, then vote for political parties that are willing to expand the public sector. Saddling private companies with semi-public duties tends to create the worst of both worlds where profits are private but losses are public.
  - chii 7y ago
    Sounds fair on paper, but when a corporation reaches such monopolistic heights like Google, they can simply wipe you from existence, but making them utilities doesn't make sense at all. There needs to be some level of complaints and appeals - and this needs to be mandatory via regulation. Unfortunately, not politically viable.
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- bko 7y ago
  > And this is an extremely minor example of corporate totalitarianism Not being allowed on a private platform is not an example of totalitarianism. Not even an extremely minor one. I think its offensive comparing not being allowed on a platform to actual totalitarianism. Twitter wasn't around before 2006. Most powerful tech companies are similarly new products. I think it's naive to assume that they're going to exist in perpetuity and somehow displace democracy with a corporate totalitarianism. Twitter will eventually fade into obscurity and irrelevance replaced by other services that draw our attention.

kypro 7y ago

And this is an extremely minor example of corporate totalitarianism. There have been people who have lost their businesses because payment processors like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal didn't like what they were doing despite operating fully within the law. It's strange to me how there are still so many people arguing that these are private companies and they have the freedom to destroy someones life if they don't like the business they run or their political views.

pavlov 7y ago
I mean, they are private companies and thus free to choose who they do business with, as long as it's not discrimination against very specific categories of individuals defined in law. If something needs to be a public utility, then vote for political parties that are willing to expand the public sector. Saddling private companies with semi-public duties tends to create the worst of both worlds where profits are private but losses are public.
- chii 7y ago
  Sounds fair on paper, but when a corporation reaches such monopolistic heights like Google, they can simply wipe you from existence, but making them utilities doesn't make sense at all. There needs to be some level of complaints and appeals - and this needs to be mandatory via regulation. Unfortunately, not politically viable.
- deleted 7y ago
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bko 7y ago
> And this is an extremely minor example of corporate totalitarianism Not being allowed on a private platform is not an example of totalitarianism. Not even an extremely minor one. I think its offensive comparing not being allowed on a platform to actual totalitarianism. Twitter wasn't around before 2006. Most powerful tech companies are similarly new products. I think it's naive to assume that they're going to exist in perpetuity and somehow displace democracy with a corporate totalitarianism. Twitter will eventually fade into obscurity and irrelevance replaced by other services that draw our attention.