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.

Until apple caves to pressure and removes infowars app

Until the next person

What about up and comers that this sorta shit happens to?

And the next

They're just done.

And the next

I think that Affirmative Action should be leveraged to enforce an equal spread of *political* views among hires

And then people who don’t have a large platform

Ew.

That way all companies would be politically neutral

what, you think all the people listening to him will just forget he existed?

You’re missing the point again

Heard anything big from Milo lately?

There’s a bigger picture here