“When you get right down to it, Facebook, Google, and Youtube or nothing more then strip malls - places small businesses can set up a public face to sell their goods and services.
Would it be legal for the owners of the strip mall to shut down a business only because they don’t like their opinions.”
You left out the part where you dont pay rent to Facebook, nor hold a legal lease for your “storefront”.
If you run a business, then stop being cheap and go get an actual website.
You left out the part where you dont pay rent to Facebook, nor hold a legal lease for your “storefront”
Facebook, Youtube and Google sell those eyeballs (along with any other personal information they can vacuum up). So they are in fact making money off their labor even if it is no paid directly.
I am not a lawyer but I don’t think it would be too hard of a case to make that they are in fact discriminating against at least one group (and who knows what other groups they are discriminating against).
What if it came out that they were actively working against blacks or other minorities (not that I am saying they do, only what if they were?) Would that be tolerated?