i mean, i guess 2 people is technically "multiple", altho it seems a bit much
re: twitter...private businesses can do whatever they want. if you break their rules, they are well within their right to refuse service. similar to refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple. you cant force a business to host content that violates its rules.
let me know when the federal gov has a social media platform youre banned from and ill happily support you in your fight to get back.
I can't get behind the free market/private business argument given Parler being throttled and then temporarily shut down yesterday.
Gotta say, I'm not there yet with Liawatha Liz in terms of breaking them up (just allow for actual competition with their own ToS instead of banding together to try to destroy any start up/alternative company that dares to hold people to the same standard instead of becoming the new frontier for controlled propaganda), but I'm more sympathetic to her on this issue then I ever thought I'd be.
Twitter and fb aren't mom and pop shops in terms of the "bake my cake" argument, there's a difference between a sole private business and whats become the information super-highway, without getting into the fact that those bakers were sued into oblivion for making (IMHO) a business stunting decision. Put it this way-I'm doing mat for the time being. Whatever issues I have with same sex marriage (and to be clear the only issue I have with Obergfell is it doesn't go far enough), their money is green. A friend of mine from law school has built his entire practice off of it and he's living large. But they shouldn't have been persecuted the way they were when you consider that this is a situation easily solved by the free market-go to the other baker down the corner.
Expanding on your analogy, there is no baker down the corner, and every time one tries to open up, they excrement in their dough, slap their best bakers apprentice with a paternity suit and burn the building down. There is absolutely no reason according to your free-market solution why Parler can't exist without having to deal with the selective bullshit from google and apple that went on yesterday.
To be clear, I'd be saying the same exact thing if they banned the previously mentioned Stacey Abrams for calling into question the 2018 gubernatorial election as she's done time and time again. You guys can laugh now, but you're now subject to the whims of multinational corporations beholden to no one.
Trump was sued for blocking people and it was held that social media is a public forum. I'm not even saying I agree with that holding, but it is what it is. If that's the case, then forget about Trump, but the mass blocking and purging of things like #walkaway accounts is absolutely a deprivation of these people's rights.
You are consistently the most unintentionally funny part of this thread.
Don't worry, the big evil cartoonist can't get you anymore!
