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> Conservatives wouldn't complain if private companies were censoring and cancelling left-leaning content. They'd be out there defending private property rights
by gwright 6y ago
> Conservatives wouldn't complain if private companies were censoring and cancelling left-leaning content. They'd be out there defending private property rights and corporate freedom to act. It's transparently political.
I think you are confusing two very different things.
Criticizing Ebay for banning particular books, or AWS for dropping Parlor, or Twitter for banning various conservatives is not in contradiction with the libertarian/conservative idea that private entities should have the freedom to manage their business as they see fit.
Arguing for limited government oversight/power in these situations is orthogonal to criticizing the decisions on their own merits.
- unityByFreedom 6y agoIt's not in contradiction provided you don't encourage people to storm government buildings on the basis of private entities making their own choices. Which did happen.
- gwright 6y agoWhat are you getting at? This comment seems to be unrelated to anything I'm saying even if I could understand it. And for what it is worth the capitol rioters have been widely condemned by libertarians and conservatives.
- unityByFreedom 6y agoSimply that Don Jr criticizing Dr Seuss or eBay for canning books is contradictory to lib/con views on free speech when his base uses such arguments to violently rebel against the government.