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0 pointsceejayoz2y ago0 comments

For the same reasons you can kick a guest out of your house when they start screaming slurs.

Their house, their rules.

I think this change is a bad call, but it’s absolutely their call to make.

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> it’s absolutely their call to make.

Well -- maybe. There are limits on free speech, and while the current regime rests on the concept of corporations having Constitutional rights, there's certainly a robust debate as to whether or not that's a reasonable approach.

(I admit, the challenge here is finding a reasonable line to regulate.)

mikeyouse2y ago

It's the least bad approach by far -- the alternative would be the government telling social media companies that they had to publish materials, including some that they had religious and moral objections to -- which is obviously unconstitutional. Could you imagine a world in which inflammatory but legal posts had to be carried? Advocating for late-term abortions on Christian Mingle or calling for a Holocaust on a Jewish social media site?

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