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The right of free speech doesn't apply to a private company. A company has every right to dictate what services it will provide and the conditions for using th
by MollyRealized 4y ago
The right of free speech doesn't apply to a private company. A company has every right to dictate what services it will provide and the conditions for using those services. It is not a public communications carrier.
- thingification 4y agoThis is to conflate (as so often) the USA's legal/constitutional codes with the principle of free speech. That principle has to do with promoting criticism of ideas, and preventing the suppression of criticism. The US codes are (just) one instance of a way to support that principle. The principle applies to all criticism, and all suppression of criticism.
- chudmeister 4y ago
- FormerBandmate 4y agoMusk after banning @elonjet in 3 minutes
- ilyt 4y ago> It is not a public communications carrier. It has 400 million users. By all other definition it is a public space
- throwayyy479087 4y agoWeird how this idea is only getting traction now that Elon owns Twitter, and not when they were censoring everything right of Mao.
- xigoi 4y agoAnd for the same reason Musk has a right to unban them, so what are you complaining about?