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>so it's okay because private companies can do whatever they want The point is they can't do whatever they want, just like Google/FB/Amazon actually can't do w
by Cookingboy 6y ago
>so it's okay because private companies can do whatever they want
The point is they can't do whatever they want, just like Google/FB/Amazon actually can't do whatever they want.
They can only do it if it's the will of the majority of their customers, employees and shareholders. Jack Dorsey or Jeff Bezos can't make decisions like this unilaterally without the support of all those parties.
- tidepod12 6y agoThe CEO of CloudFlare famously said that the reason he decided to deplatform Daily Stormer (after previously saying he would not deplatform them) was because one morning he woke up in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the internet. Literally all it took was one CEO waking up on the wrong side of the bed one morning. It seems entirely inaccurate to say that Dorsey or Bezos couldn't make a decision unilaterally like that if they really wanted. I'm not sure about Twitter, but Bezos is the majority shareholder at Amazon and if he really wanted to, could make the decision to ban anyone he wants and nobody would legally be able to stop him, will of the employees/shareholders/public be damned.
- Cookingboy 6y agoI can almost guarantee you he wouldn’t have done it and got away with it if he didn’t know his decision was going to be popular among their employees and shareholders. Of course he made a statement that made himself sound courageous, but it was the easiest decision ever and a PR move lol.