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If you run a restaurant, you can refuse to do business with anyone you choose. If that was not the case, you would effectively be a slave; unable to choose acti

If you run a restaurant, you can refuse to do business with anyone you choose. If that was not the case, you would effectively be a slave; unable to choose actions for yourself and your business. Cloudflare refused to do business with people and content; that is their prerogative.

HBKXNCUO 7y ago
>If you run a restaurant, you can refuse to do business with anyone you choose. You will suffer legal consequences if it's determined that you refused to do business with them on the basis of certain characteristics protected by law. Property rights are not absolute. Exceptions to them can be made if people think there is good reason to do so. The situation we are in now, where technology companies have found themselves with wide power to control the public political debate occurring among regular people merely as a consequence of successfully running some particular types of business, is not one we've really seen before. There are some very persuasive arguments for limiting their property rights, similar to how they were limited e.g. ~50 years ago by the civil rights act.
djsumdog 7y ago
Did you read the article I wrote/cited? > A store cannot have blacks only and whites only bathrooms or water fountains. Bars and restaurants in some jurisdictions can allow smoking within their establishments, while in other municipalities, smoking indoors is banned for all businesses. Companies who chose to be equal opportunity employers have several criteria for which they cannot discriminate against. Laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act mandates certain accessibility requirements in order to maintain a storefront ... Speech does not yet fall into any of these existing regularity frameworks. So no, you're wrong. You cannot refuse to do business with anyone you choose. The Colorado cake case is a really special one, because it had to do with art. As an artist, you can refuse a commission to build a creative work if it goes against your values. The guy who ran that shop just stopped accepting custom orders, and then later got in trouble again when he refused to sell plain non-custom cupcakes to a gay couple.

HBKXNCUO 7y ago

>If you run a restaurant, you can refuse to do business with anyone you choose. You will suffer legal consequences if it's determined that you refused to do business with them on the basis of certain characteristics protected by law. Property rights are not absolute. Exceptions to them can be made if people think there is good reason to do so. The situation we are in now, where technology companies have found themselves with wide power to control the public political debate occurring among regular people merely as a consequence of successfully running some particular types of business, is not one we've really seen before. There are some very persuasive arguments for limiting their property rights, similar to how they were limited e.g. ~50 years ago by the civil rights act.

djsumdog 7y ago

Did you read the article I wrote/cited? > A store cannot have blacks only and whites only bathrooms or water fountains. Bars and restaurants in some jurisdictions can allow smoking within their establishments, while in other municipalities, smoking indoors is banned for all businesses. Companies who chose to be equal opportunity employers have several criteria for which they cannot discriminate against. Laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act mandates certain accessibility requirements in order to maintain a storefront ... Speech does not yet fall into any of these existing regularity frameworks. So no, you're wrong. You cannot refuse to do business with anyone you choose. The Colorado cake case is a really special one, because it had to do with art. As an artist, you can refuse a commission to build a creative work if it goes against your values. The guy who ran that shop just stopped accepting custom orders, and then later got in trouble again when he refused to sell plain non-custom cupcakes to a gay couple.