Originally Posted by
Tgo01
And these companies can't hope to compete in a market where Democrats tell them to shut someone down and they do exactly that.
Do you think Twitter or Google would still be a thing if when they were just starting out Republicans could have demanded everyone stop doing business with them and the companies were so afraid of Republicans that they did just that? Of course not.
Democrats have found a way to control speech, they just hide behind "private businesses" now.
So important was free speech and access to free speech platforms to politicians back in the day that they forbid telecommunication companies from discriminating against anyone and forbid them from censoring anyone using their platform, in exchange for these limitations they protected telecommunication companies from lawsuits and criminal charges if someone used their service to plan a murder or something.
Fast forward to the internet era and now congress is like "Eh, go ahead and discriminate, you can decide who can and cannot use your platform, you can censor free speech all you want, AND we'll even provide some protection from lawsuits."
What happened here? Why are we suddenly okay with this? The biggest difference is Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit are MUCH more powerful in terms of providing a free speech platform than telecommunication companies ever were.
Parler banned leftist users. Didn't hear you crying about that.
No, I am not Drauz in game.