A company cannot suppress a human right. Unless they force you to use their service.

Someone they don’t like gets banned and they cheer... not realising that what they’re cheering for is a precedence of privatised tyranny.

Last I checked, no one forced me to use twitter.

You’re missing the point

What? That if I make something popular enough you want to take away my ownership of it and hand it to he government?

>Advocate a society without rules
>Ban someone for breaking the rules

No one forced you to use the public square in the day either but it was left untouched so if you wanted to you could

The thing is about twitter.

If you're an entrepreneur trying to create/promote/crowdfund ANYTHING, everyone and their dog will tell you to get a twitter.

It was owned by the government, and as such we put restrictions on the government.

"Social media bro. Social media bro."

"That's where it's at bro"

They ruled that Trumps Twitter was a public space but ban people from Twitter for vague non things like hate speech

I despise twitter. I think it's a shit service that turns people into cannibals.

But in order to put restrictions on a private company, you need to strip away restrictions on the government

But to pretend these things are anything short of ubiquitous, is silly.

If a company is in bed with, taking money from or getting assistance from the government

Private companies are not supposed to be this ubiquitous.

They should be treated as a government organisation

So the whole corn and oil industry?

And thus abide by the same rules.. ie the first amendment

As long as the companies remain American companies

I would rather they stop receiving government funding

They're not even abiding by american principles.

I agree

"Yeah yeah, freedom of speech.. But that's more of a GOVERNMENT thing.."

Rather than say "oh yeah government, you pay for it... So just take it over entirely"

"We're just.. citizens of that country. We can be outlandishly different from those values and it's fine. It's all fine."

I also wish they were not in cahoots with each other in coordinated unpersoning of people they don’t like

But we can’t have what we want

Twitter should at least have to tell you WHICH TWEET GOT YOU BANNED.

Oppress enough people, they will find themselves missing their heads.

How's that for a start?

I wish their vague TOS weren’t complete fucking garbage and people could talk freely online

Just telling the reason for a banning.

Tyranny does not have to originate from the government.

But tell me, how good did they oppress Jones? They kicked him off, and that managed to increase the number of people listening to him

And that's another thing. Any rule they enforce, they are MANDATED to enforce it equally to every last person on that goddamn service.

Until the people who own his IP and website domain say he can’t have that either

That only works because Alex Jones has been around.

And people know him.