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I'm outraged that I can't live in your house or apartment with you, and that you have the legal right to kick me out of your home. Private property is one of t

I'm outraged that I can't live in your house or apartment with you, and that you have the legal right to kick me out of your home. Private property is one of the main reasons for what the USA stands for. GoDaddy is a private company. Conservatives are ALWAYS outraged when something like this goes against them, but when they want it the other way it is perfectly ok - like the bakery where the owners didn't want to create a wedding cake for two homosexuals. Then it was all, "A private business can do what they want, which means not working for the gay." As far as the religious freedom law goes, it is supposed to acknowledge deeply held religious beliefs. For example, Satanic Temple just cites Religious Freedom Restoration Act to request access to abortion drugs in aftermath of Texas ban. But, I'm SURE that the religious freaks that support the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, WON'T support it because they are hell-bent (pun intended) on violated the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America allowing the freedom of religion, with some lame-ass excuse like saying that the Satanic Temple is not a religion. To them it isn't. But for those who belong to it, it sure is.

m0zg 5y ago
I regularly see on this very site liberals outraged about things "private" companies are fully within their rights to do. You can't be for and against something depending on the political affiliation of the affected party. That's pure hypocrisy. Then again, hypocrisy is the main currency of politics, as well as the only true manifestation of power. Fortunes change, though. Don't wail 10 years from now when corporations decide that they like the conservative side better and ban you from the internet. Because that's within their rights too.
- watwut 5y ago
  You really don't get to actively participate on profiting from this particular law and cry about freedom or consequences.
  - m0zg 5y ago
    You need to put some dressing on this word salad.
    - watwut 5y ago
      The site is all about suing people who never interacted with you on the suspicion they might help someone to abortion. Even if they win, it will cost them a lot of money and effort. That is the whole point.To scare people with threats of lawsuits while being able to pretend it is not state doing so. That is way larger and more consequential limit of freedom, especially since exceptions are so few people will inevitably harmed physically. You don't get to play freedom fighter while insisting on third parties to enable the above. There are consequences and one of them is that your "omg freedom if go daddy does not enable the harassement" sounds hypocriticaland merely a rhetorical device.
    - dang 5y ago
      Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and ideological battle comments to HN? You've a ton of this, we've asked you repeatedly not to, and we eventually ban such accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- France_is_bacon 5y ago
  Well, first of all, I personally am not liberal and am the OP. I think both sides, left and right, are blazing idiots. Only someone on the outside can see this. I agree that you can't be for or against something depending on what political affiliations are. However, it is the Republicans that are doing this, in this case. They are FOR allowing a baker to refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding because it is their right and their business can do what they want to do, but are against GoDaddy from kicking them off their private platform. That's what I'm saying. If Zuckerburg or Youtube go conservative, then they can ban liberals. The thing is, is that with the internet, it is so easy to create your own site, your own thing. For both sides. However, there is something that both sides are not allowed to do is to refuse service to protected classes. This includes by race, sex, age, etc. These are things that businesses don't control, and can't decide. This was done by Congress. Furthermore, local governments CAN ban companies from starting in their own town or city, no matter what the private citizen things he or she can do. Towns or cities have zoning laws, for example. My town, you can only open an auto repair shop on certain roads, unless grandfathered in, of course. Towns or cities can completely ban industries. You can open a strip club in San Jose Califoria, but not in Los Altos California. And, what I am saying is that the conservatives/Republicans got the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows people and companies to do things that they have a deeply held religious conviction about, which is why the Satanic Temple said that it is there deeply held religious conviction that women should have access to birth control and abortions. But, if you want me to go off on the retardedness of liberals, I'm more than happy to do that, too. It's just at this point, it is the conservatives turn for me.

m0zg 5y ago

I regularly see on this very site liberals outraged about things "private" companies are fully within their rights to do. You can't be for and against something depending on the political affiliation of the affected party. That's pure hypocrisy. Then again, hypocrisy is the main currency of politics, as well as the only true manifestation of power. Fortunes change, though. Don't wail 10 years from now when corporations decide that they like the conservative side better and ban you from the internet. Because that's within their rights too.

watwut 5y ago
You really don't get to actively participate on profiting from this particular law and cry about freedom or consequences.
- m0zg 5y ago
  You need to put some dressing on this word salad.
  - watwut 5y ago
    The site is all about suing people who never interacted with you on the suspicion they might help someone to abortion. Even if they win, it will cost them a lot of money and effort. That is the whole point.To scare people with threats of lawsuits while being able to pretend it is not state doing so. That is way larger and more consequential limit of freedom, especially since exceptions are so few people will inevitably harmed physically. You don't get to play freedom fighter while insisting on third parties to enable the above. There are consequences and one of them is that your "omg freedom if go daddy does not enable the harassement" sounds hypocriticaland merely a rhetorical device.
  - dang 5y ago
    Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and ideological battle comments to HN? You've a ton of this, we've asked you repeatedly not to, and we eventually ban such accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
France_is_bacon 5y ago
Well, first of all, I personally am not liberal and am the OP. I think both sides, left and right, are blazing idiots. Only someone on the outside can see this. I agree that you can't be for or against something depending on what political affiliations are. However, it is the Republicans that are doing this, in this case. They are FOR allowing a baker to refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding because it is their right and their business can do what they want to do, but are against GoDaddy from kicking them off their private platform. That's what I'm saying. If Zuckerburg or Youtube go conservative, then they can ban liberals. The thing is, is that with the internet, it is so easy to create your own site, your own thing. For both sides. However, there is something that both sides are not allowed to do is to refuse service to protected classes. This includes by race, sex, age, etc. These are things that businesses don't control, and can't decide. This was done by Congress. Furthermore, local governments CAN ban companies from starting in their own town or city, no matter what the private citizen things he or she can do. Towns or cities have zoning laws, for example. My town, you can only open an auto repair shop on certain roads, unless grandfathered in, of course. Towns or cities can completely ban industries. You can open a strip club in San Jose Califoria, but not in Los Altos California. And, what I am saying is that the conservatives/Republicans got the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows people and companies to do things that they have a deeply held religious conviction about, which is why the Satanic Temple said that it is there deeply held religious conviction that women should have access to birth control and abortions. But, if you want me to go off on the retardedness of liberals, I'm more than happy to do that, too. It's just at this point, it is the conservatives turn for me.