> "It also establishes a precedent, allowing private companies to set opaque, moralizing, and arbitrary censorship terms without oversight."
> Yes, this is done with other things as well.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Complain that twitter or facebook is censoring things and you'll get told that the government should not be able to dictate to private companies who can or cannot be excluded.
Allow private companies to exclude a significant chunk of the population, and those same groups will complain of censorship.
Both the Right and the Left have a common interest in forcing private companies to not exclude certain people.
Too bad that too few people see the value in regulating de-facto monopolies.
> Yes, this is done with other things as well.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Complain that twitter or facebook is censoring things and you'll get told that the government should not be able to dictate to private companies who can or cannot be excluded.
Allow private companies to exclude a significant chunk of the population, and those same groups will complain of censorship.
Both the Right and the Left have a common interest in forcing private companies to not exclude certain people.
Too bad that too few people see the value in regulating de-facto monopolies.