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As was said, this is normal in the US. Private businesses can refuse service to anyone for any reason. There's that paint color that is allowed to be used by al
by nonameiguess 3y ago
As was said, this is normal in the US. Private businesses can refuse service to anyone for any reason. There's that paint color that is allowed to be used by all but one person because the inventor doesn't like them.
On the other hand, I'm definitely not saying this is okay or sane just because it's standard practice in the US. It's also how we got legalized segregation and we had to pass laws carving out exceptions to create protected classes such that you're not allowed to refuse service because a person is black, for instance. Just doing this splintered the country and created the modern GOP with its southern strategy.
So it's nice to see these large web companies having to respect the laws of other jurisdictions and not just the US with its hallowed history of property rights over all else, going all the way back to chattel slavery. If the EU can force saner norms on the web, I'm all for it.
- justin66 3y ago> Private businesses can refuse service to anyone for any reason. There are enough really obvious counterexamples to that statement that I wonder why you'd write it.
- UberFly 3y agoAny that's just the first sentence.
- soulbadguy 3y agoIndeed. I think this "Private businesses can refuse service to anyone for any reason." as been repeated so many times, that a lot of people think of it almost as a tautology. In particular in this case, we have many pass example where even in the US, companies have be found to violate anti trusts law be either refusing or strongly conditioning doing business with a third-party.
- basil-rash 3y agoLike the ones they went into in the following sentence?
- bee_rider 3y agoHey now, they’d have to read all the way to the second paragraph to get to the nuance. You can’t expect people to read two paragraphs before starting to argue.
- justin66 3y agoContradicting yourself isn't "nuance," it's bad writing.
- basil-rash 3y agoThey present prior art on both sides of the issue then provide their interpretation of the matter. If that’s bad writing, then so is every court decision ever.
- krisoft 3y ago> There's that paint color that is allowed to be used by all but one person because the inventor doesn't like them. I think you mean Black 3.0 (or the other versions from the same artist) which cannot be used by Anish Kapoor. Worth nothing that the artist making that paint is british and not american.