Freedom of Speech is allowed in any public place in the USA. Unfortunately you are confusing internet service with a physical location. The Internet is a Thing not a Place. If you allow what you want on the internet what stops me from tagging your building with my graffiti. I am not a lawyer and not even an American but I do understand the laws.
Except that these people have a section 230 protection handed to them by the government, which in effect means the government is enabling and protecting this action... If it was not, then their actions could be tested in court, however they cannot be...
How about remove the technology aspect of it. What your essentially requesting then is the right to be able use anyone's Billboards along the highway. Internet is a Thing not a place. Also remember that this "Internet Thing" is shared globally and like it or not American Laws are not globally enforceable. Section 230 is very broken legislation, unfortunately!
I hear you, but it all comes down to how you much it costs to have control over your own destiny. Building your own data center and scaling it at just the right rate is difficult and expensive. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft that invest billions in that and sell it as a service have to be careful to protect their reputations in order to protect that investment. This arrangement makes it cheap to do lots of stuff but doesn't translate well to controversial activities, since the world is full of snowf
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Oh, they're free to "say" whatever they want. They're not entitled to a platform for it though.
I wish a lot of people running their mouths about stories like Twitter banning Trump would actually take the time to read the 1st amendment.
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Oh, they're free to "say" whatever they want. They're not entitled to a platform for it though.
I wish a lot of people running their mouths about stories like Twitter banning Trump would actually take the time to read the 1st amendment.
Listen to what you are saying though. "They can go speak somewhere else".
Well, that's what they tried to do ...
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Except that these people have a section 230 protection handed to them by the government, which in effect means the government is enabling and protecting this action...
If it was not, then their actions could be tested in court, however they cannot be...
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Listen to what you are saying though. "They can go speak somewhere else".
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Well, that's what they tried to do
Well, they can try again.
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They didn't try very hard if the only answer they came up with was something hosted on AWS.
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I hear you, but it all comes down to how you much it costs to have control over your own destiny. Building your own data center and scaling it at just the right rate is difficult and expensive. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft that invest billions in that and sell it as a service have to be careful to protect their reputations in order to protect that investment. This arrangement makes it cheap to do lots of stuff but doesn't translate well to controversial activities, since the world is full of snowf
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