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I never said companies are not free to make choices. I said it was a bad choice.

• bborud 6y ago
  So providing a platform for others to incite violence and ending democracy is a good choice? I do hope you appreciate that this question stopped being a purely academic question four days ago and became the very real death of five people and the closest the US has come to a coup d’detat in a very, very long time? The decisions to de-platform the United States president and the angry mob is not something any service provider wants or would do lightly. These are the hardest decisions many of these companies will make this decade. Is it the best decision in this situation? We won’t know for years. Was it a good decision? Yes. And it was one that took courage. I’m glad someone had the courage to make that decision.
  • NhanH 6y ago
    After thinking it through a bit more, I will concede that there is a reasonbly high chance I was wrong with my insistence on absolutely keeping principles being more important than dealing with actual demonstrated bad actors. As long as this doesn't lead to a slippery slope of more censorship (both by the state and private entities), and more power to non due-process witch hunt, I would be wrong. I don't think there are a way any of us can say for certain what will happen, so let's wait a couple of years and see how it turn out.