ajax18 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 5:07 pm
Andrew Breitbart always said culture runs upstream from politics. In the US, we've criminalized and penalized discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. But if what if you don't like a persons politics? Well that's fair game nowadays. Somehow the same people that claim a baker cannot refuse to make a gay wedding cake claim that Facebook has the right to ban people who don't toe the political line because after all Facebook is a private company. And right now, these people control the government, big tech, and a large chunk of the corporate elite.
To claim we still have freedom of speech and freedom of association in this country as granted by the Constitution just isn't true.
If you want to use someone else’s platform or resources, you have to abide by their rules. Complaining about Facebook coming down on some folks for violating Facebook’s TOS isn’t an example of your ‘freedom of speech’ being stifled.
That’s one platform. There are others, and you’ve used some of them to speak your mind freely. Just because Facebook is popular doesn’t mean that it needs to surrender its property to you or anyone else so that you can use it for
your benefit above anyone else’s.
I don’t have the ability to demand that Fox News broadcast whatever documentary that I’d produce simply because Fox News is popular, do I? And that their refusal amounts to stifling
my ‘freedom of speech’?
Maybe I can force Breitbart to do the same, because they’re popular, too?
Would you prefer that?
