So you think that they should just ban James Woods.

And when they get around to banning you...

I don't use social media

If there is a demand, someone will supply it

Not necessarily.

Corporations make decisions for financial reasons

You need the ability to meet that demand.

discord is social media

we're being social rn

And if they banned me, I'd go out to the real world where I remember that social media is a gaint bubble and normal people live outside that bubble.

You're naive.

In the case of Gab, in my mind it was fear of brand damage being associated with a psychopath as well (although i could be wrong here) fear of lawsuit

@shinsoo and my statement stands. They ban me I go back to the real world

@DrYuriMom that's actually one of the funny things about these kinds of laws. They can provide cover.

I'm naive. The left have been controlling social media and the news for a while, yet trump won.

Explain to me how he did that if the power they already have is not enough

you can face repression for your views offline too

I may be naive. I wouldn't be here if i wasn't willing to admit that possibility.

@Grenade123 Ok, they go and rally around social media and convince everyone online to go against your interests and you can neither organize nor talk.

I'm sorry, but last I checked, I could still kick socialist out of my house and hold meetings there

And use the police to get them off my lawn

You're also not running a phone company and advertising fairly standard services to the public.

I can host a webserver on my computers in my house.

Non sequitar.

exactly, people will kick you off their property if you're using it to spout stuff they don't like

Your webserver is too small to matter.

good luck getting the same audience in your living room as you can reach online

But AT&T can't just deny phone service because if they did they could control democracy--Western Union actually did it once.

The internet is the new phone.

It's only too small too matter if I don't talk to people

Except it's even bigger and more important.

Is Jones gone?

He seems to still be able to harass a sitting politician

It's the phone service, the mail service, television, shopping and finance all at once.

These are all already regulated because of the potential for abuse.

And all (aside retail) are banned from simply discriminating for non-economic reasons.

All things the government is involved in, monitors, and uses to accuse me of terrorism and throw me in jail or put me on a drone hitlist

@Grenade123 And when his money runs out? He hasn't seemed too effective.

`So you think that they should just ban James Woods.` If James Woods acts in a way that without a shadow of a doubt violates the platforms terms of services I don't think alot of people would argue against. Only problem is the TOS are too vague for interpreation, selectively enforced and most times users are punished without a crime. If Twitter equally enforced their TOS they'd have maybe half of the daily active users tomorrow

Very good options: get kicked off a platform and stop having socialist yell at me, or get drone strikes.

"Drone strikes" has to be the slippery slope of the year.