> My biggest concern is that the "they're private companies, they can do whatever they want" argument applies to ISP's, too - they're private companies as well.

> My biggest concern is that the "they're private companies, they can do whatever they want" argument applies to ISP's, too - they're private companies as well. We've already seen Epik being "deplatformed" by PayPal (also a private company) for allowing controversial content to pass through their infrastructure. This isn't new or unique to paypal. The Credit Card companies and banks that underly pretty much every fancy modern method of money transfer have and do "deplatform" people. And they've done it for ages. Porn companies can't use conventional credit card processors, and there's a long history of banks and credit cards refusing to do business with certain companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming#Financial_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming#Financial_servic...). Whatever your overall opinion of deplatforming, the idea isn't anything new or unique to twitter. ISPs were singled out (they aren't anymore, net neutrality was rolled back, now your argument only applies to phone companies).