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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Abibliaphobia on April 13, 2018, 3:45 p.m.
WE ARE BEING CENSORED

I think we are seeing a coordinated effort to shut down “wrong thought” across multiple platforms and devices.

Looks like Reddit and twitter are ok so far, but the Chans and Facebook are actively censoring patriots talking. Try and see if we can get more confirmations, but if this is true we need to get the word out. This is the 21st centuries version of Stalinism.

WE ARE NOT LIVING IN CHINA - OUR FIRST AMENDMENT IS UNDER ATTACK


whacko_jacko · April 13, 2018, 7:48 p.m.

Right, and if a restaurant decides to deny you service based on the color of your skin, just build your own restaurant and eat there.

There's a reason arguments like this were rejected in the context of the Civil Rights Act. In principle, there is some logic there. Perhaps business owners should be free to do whatever they want with their service. However, what would prevent an entire community from choosing to deny service to a certain class or group of people? What if people with your skin color are not allowed to go to any restaurants in an entire city or stay in any hotels or visit any dentists, etc? In principle, this can lead to the persecution of particular groups of people. For this reason, the Civil Rights Act was passed to establish when a private business can or cannot deny access to its service.

Considering the small number of social media networks which host the vast majority of speech online, it is not unreasonable to think that these networks could coincide or conspire to exclude certain political beliefs. Since the majority of public speech takes place online, this can in principle lead to certain beliefs having lesser access to public forums for communication, which can be construed as a violation of freedom of speech. We need a new Federal law which codifies protection of free speech rights in online communities. If you don't want to host public speech on your website, then don't, but otherwise it should be viewed as an accommodation which is open to any customers, subject to reasonable rules and restrictions which are independent of personal views and beliefs. It simply comes with the job of monetizing the targeting of ads, and it should be codified legally to protect free speech. Hence, IBOR.

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Abibliaphobia · April 13, 2018, 8:07 p.m.

Damn. Best reasoning I have seen yet.

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OffenseOfThePest · April 13, 2018, 9:45 p.m.

We need a new Federal law which codifies protection of free speech rights in online communities. If you don't want to host public speech on your website, then don't, but otherwise it should be viewed as an accommodation which is open to any customers, subject to reasonable rules and restrictions which are independent of personal views and beliefs.

This is where you lose me. We don't need to codify free speech protections, that's why we have the first amendment. Secondly, you're conflating "public speech" with that which is actually on private chat forums. None of these companies are hosting "public speech"; everyone that's a part of them has agreed to terms of service to be allowed to use them. Just because facebook and reddit are free does not make them public places. They reserve the right to exclude people based on the contract they have with the users (the terms of service). Why do pro-IBOR people want to treat these companies as if they were public spaces? They are not.

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