No such defense exists. Should we treat every billion dollar company as a country?
No such defense exists? Have you read this site every time a new wave of social media cancellations happen? After every credit card processing company ban a group of polemical people?
"They are a private company they can decide what to do"
Well, maybe if you are extracting 70 billion a year from society it is not that simple as "I can decide who to do business with"
I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away.
Every company is allowed to do "whatever they want" if you define "whatever they want" as "legally refuse to do business with an individual"
> I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away
What? Of course they wouldn't, companies are free to do business with whomever they choose as long as they do not discriminate against a protected class. People who post "stop the steal" is not protected, nor is it a class of people, it is a behavior prohibited by the rules of the platform.
Even if that was true, which it is not generally in the US, that's not analogous to what is happening. It's more like if Shell, instead of selling gas for money, was a peer-to-peer gas exchange service, and they decided not to let you participate because the traits of the specific formulation of gas you were providing didn't conform to what they wanted in their exchange network.
