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These are surreal times, to put it mildly. These headlines of banning/deplatforming would be ordinary if you substitute "CCP" for "Facebook", "Twitter", and "
by eplanit 6y ago
These are surreal times, to put it mildly. These headlines of banning/deplatforming would be ordinary if you substitute "CCP" for "Facebook", "Twitter", and "Amazon".
Facebook has even blocked Ron Paul?!? (https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1348704640486014982 https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1348704640486014982)
FAANG is the bakery, and Trump and everything associated with him is the same-sex wedding cake.
- chillacy 6y ago1. That case ended with the conclusion that the bakery could deny service because it would otherwise be “compelled speech” 2. Political beliefs are not a protected class like sexual orientation (should they be?) Given that, this seems like even more of an open and shut case: businesses have a right to decide who they serve.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> That case ended with the conclusion that the bakery could deny service because it would otherwise be “compelled speech” No, it ended with the conclusion that the particular state panel that rules against the baker did so with impermissible religious animus against his beliefs, and therefore the ruling against him was unconstitutional. “Compelled speech" was what a broad political group wanted the Court to rule on, but it's not what it did rule on, instead issuing a much more limited decision that dodged the broad issue almost entirely.
- readflaggedcomm 6y agoRon Paul is racist. He should have lost his voice long ago. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gw353/yeah-ron-paul-is-racist-after-all-sorry https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gw353/yeah-ron-paul-is-raci...