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I think companies being allowed to carry whatever content they want is the best compromise. Companies aren't there to ensure your free speech or provide a platf
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
I think companies being allowed to carry whatever content they want is the best compromise. Companies aren't there to ensure your free speech or provide a platform. That has never been a constitutional right. There is nothing keeping the far right or far left from setting up and coming up with AltRightFace or LeftAntiface. This is the judiciary picking and choosing winners and losers that align with their personal philosophy. No one was -ever- guaranteed a platform outside a public debate forum. If you want new laws for that then get Congress to pass it. Judges are always trying to sidestep the will of the people, in particular the current SCOTUS. Maybe a further compromise would be to keep companies like cloudflare, spectrum, digital ocean, or AWS from playing favorites as they are providing the most basic of services (web hosting, web apps, etc) that make this stuff possible. Generally not general public facing. I could see a compromise where they wouldn't be allow to turn off content unless it was breaking the law (threats at individuals, treason, insurrection talk, etc)