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Were any laws broken by Twitter? Don’t businesses in the US have nearly every right to arbitrarily deny service to people (with a few exceptions when it’s expli

Were any laws broken by Twitter? Don’t businesses in the US have nearly every right to arbitrarily deny service to people (with a few exceptions when it’s explicitly denying on the basis of race, etc.)? Twitter literally didn’t exist 15 years ago. How can a lack of access to Twitter be an an infringement on free speech then?

iijlasdjkfj 6y ago
The internet literally didn't exist 50 years ago. How can a lack of access to internet be an infringement on free speech then? Television literally didn't exist 100 years ago. How can a lack of access to television be an infringement of free speech then? Written language literally didn't exist ~5000 years ago. How can a lack of access to written language be an infringement of free speech then?
- CharlesW 6y ago
  > The internet literally didn't exist 50 years ago. How can a lack of access to internet be an infringement on free speech then? So the 14% of households with school-aged children in the United States without internet access don't have free speech? https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2018/digital-divide-among-school-age-children-narrows-millions-still-lack-internet-connections https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2018/digital-divide-among-scho...
  - iijlasdjkfj 6y ago
    Well CharlesW, if you were a member of those 14% of households without internet access could you have written your comment on HN sharing your viewpoint with other readers of HN?
jwalton 6y ago
> Were any laws broken by Twitter? Yes, but not the ones you think. The FAANG companies are basically all illegal monopolies.