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"Protect your right to say it..." from _the government_. There has never been a reasonable expectation that private businesses are or should be required to allo
by jasonshaev 4y ago
"Protect your right to say it..." from _the government_. There has never been a reasonable expectation that private businesses are or should be required to allow all speech. Doing so prevents the business from exercising their own first amendment protections.
- computerfriend 4y agoNobody is talking about 1A. Freedom of speech is a principle. That there are laws codifying it is incidental.
- jasonshaev 4y agoIf I reword my reply to: "There has never been a reasonable expectation that private businesses are or should be required to allow all speech. Doing so prevents the business from exercising their own freedom of speech protections." it still holds. Freedom of speech does not mean that a company should be compelled or required to host speech it disagrees with.
- computerfriend 4y agoYou can go much further: freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. Glad we both agree on the importance of free speech.
- fleddr 4y agoCorrect, yet for a particular category of companies providing foundation utility-like services, there's a well established tradition of taking a liberal/neutral stance. Which above all is a pragmatic call.
- phillipcarter 4y agoStop shifting the goalposts.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoThis is the law but everyone is free to adhere to the principle of free speech themselves. If you need to be compelled to do it, you simply don't share the idea of free speech, which is regrettable.