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> The government forces me to fund speech I hate? Yup. You already do it anyway with many other platforms. "Nazis" are still entitled to cellphones and mailin
by apostacy 6y ago
> The government forces me to fund speech I hate?
Yup.
You already do it anyway with many other platforms. "Nazis" are still entitled to cellphones and mailing addresses. And you help subsidize them. And that is a good thing.
However progressive you think you are, I'm certain that there are people out there that would call you a Nazi and want you to be banned from everything.
> I can’t understand the supposed end-game for this idea that no one is allowed to moderate speech on private property.
A company like T-Mobile is not "private property". It is a good thing that T-Mobile is forbidden from terminating your account at a whim because they don't like your politics.
And Facebook is bigger and has a lot more power over the public than T-Mobile. But Facebook should play by the rules of some small Silicon Valley startup? Facebook is well into the domain of telecom giants.
Now, I don't think that Facebook should be forbidden from protecting some of their customers from other customers, or facilitating harassment. But I think they should be held to an even higher standard than the phone companies, because they provide so many features that people have come to rely on.