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To: ProtectOurFreedom; DiogenesLamp
There is ZERO DIFFERENCE between tech firms deciding who their customers should be based on political and social differences and cake shops deciding who they should serve based on social and political differences.

There's some argument about whether sexual orientation is a protected class but otherwise the question is the same:

Can the federal government force a private business to service a customer they don't want to.

If you think Mailchimp has to serve Molyneux then you're arguing for the baker to have to make a gay wedding cake.

14 posted on 01/15/2020 6:57:38 AM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo

There is a HUGE difference between a platform / utility and a private business. The cake / flower shops never refused to sell their products to people with whom they disagreed. They did refuse to be required to participate in an event with which they disagreed. Big difference.

As for Mail Chimp / Twitter / et al, if they are private companies and can restrict access, then they can also be held liable for content as a publisher. If they want no liability for content, then they are a platform / utility like the phone company and cannot restrict content.

Why the Trump administration has not taken a big stick to this constant abuse is surprising and disappointing.


18 posted on 01/15/2020 7:09:25 AM PST by tcoxaz
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To: semimojo; ProtectOurFreedom; DiogenesLamp
If you think Mailchimp has to serve Molyneux then you're arguing for the baker to have to make a gay wedding cake.

Actually, you're looking at this precisely backwards. I doesn't matter what you think, the baker already has to make the gay wedding cake. Since we're already under that regimen, it is therefore entirely appropriate to tell MailChimp that they have to host Molyneux, if you wish to remain evenhanded. Preemptively surrendering to the Left on this on the basis of fanciful and unworkable libertarian "principles" is a recipe for disaster in the long run.

30 posted on 01/15/2020 7:59:42 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: semimojo
If you think Mailchimp has to serve Molyneux then you're arguing for the baker to have to make a gay wedding cake.

The constitution does not guarantee a right to wedding cakes. The constitution does guarantee a right to "freedom of speech" and the intent of the founders is clearly that speech should not be censored.

The founders never envisioned anyone but government having the power to censor speech, but again, their intent was that speech be not censored.

Beyond that. Beyond the meaning of the words. Beyond the philosophy of libertarian thought.

If we allow this, we are destroyed.

32 posted on 01/15/2020 8:26:29 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: semimojo

Wait, wait; religious freedom came into the baker case.


35 posted on 01/15/2020 9:16:42 AM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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