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> Our speech right (...) is expansive and it doesn’t stop at (...) a website’s login page. You don't have free speech rights in a private venue. If you invite
by rhinoceraptor 11y ago
> Our speech right (...) is expansive and it doesn’t stop at (...) a website’s login page.
You don't have free speech rights in a private venue. If you invite me to dinner at your house and I insult your mother, you have every right to kick me out.
- kuschku 11y agoIf the site is having a monopoly due to driving competitors illegally out of business (compare internet.org, 0.facebook.com), then the site is automatically treated like a governmental monopoly, meaning it can be legally forced to secure people’s rights similar to a governmental institution. Same reason why the EU can have such strict laws about Google. The author should just go to the EU, here the author would have a better chance at succeeding.
- 1ris 11y agoIf you own every house in town I should have that right the insult your mother in one of these. The idea that one has not rights if one is on property one does not own is absurd. In 1939, Justice Owen Josephus Roberts stated that "use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges [...] of citizens." Facebook is a public place by all means. Proably even more so than a street.