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"Free speech is for the speech you hate, not for the speech you like"
by curtisblaine 2y ago
"Free speech is for the speech you hate, not for the speech you like"
- pavel_lishin 2y agoFree speech as in speech protected by the 1st amendment? That's very specifically meant to curtail the government's powers, not the powers of merchants who decline to do business with others. You could make a pretty strong argument that overly stringent regulations that result in sex workers, etc., being unable to process payments are a violation of that, but I'm not aware of why Visa/Mastercard don't support Gab & Parler. If it's that, you have a point. Otherwise, not really.
- curtisblaine 2y agoThey didn't, back in the days. I remember diatinctly the only way to send money to Gab / Parler was Bitcoin. Maybe now they do, but that's not very important.
- syntaxfree 2y agoWho said anything about amendments?
- pavel_lishin 2y agoIt's a reasonable assumption to make when someone invokes the term "free speech" in a majority-American forum. (I'm making some assumptions about visitors of HN here, who are probably more international than most places I'm in, but still.)