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Social Media Picking and Choosing vs Bakeries (Vanity)
11 Jan 2121

Posted on 01/11/2021 2:40:15 PM PST by rey

Why can a baker be forced to make a cake for something he disagrees with but a social media platform may pick and choose? Is it possible to sue some of these providers under the same laws that bakers are forced to serve those they disagree with.

Make no mistake, the bakery cases are not merely about baking a cake. The reports never tell us what the customer wanted on those cakes or what shape they may have been to cause the objection but you may be certain it wasn't a simple, plain cake. IF a baker may be forced to be the bearer of such a message, why not a web provider? The first amendment does not say anything about "protected groups," and when many of these suits were brought against bakeries, homosexuals were not a protected group and really still aren't.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: censorship; socialmedia; vanity

1 posted on 01/11/2021 2:40:15 PM PST by rey
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To: rey

RULE 230....If it’s abolished,social media sites will shut down rather than be sued into bankruptcy.....


2 posted on 01/11/2021 2:42:40 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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To: rey
homosexuals were not a protected group and really still aren't.

Y'all can still post vanity threads though.

3 posted on 01/11/2021 2:45:13 PM PST by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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You insensitive fool, don’t you know that LGBTQ persons are a protected minority that cannot be discriminated against, but entities like Christian bakeries, Parler, Gab, RushLimbaugh.com, and other right-wing extremist sights are a bunch of racist, homophobic, white supremacists who need to be exterminated from the face of the Earth.


4 posted on 01/11/2021 2:46:57 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: rey

Sodomites are given protected class status (special rights) under the law in many States and soon under federal law.

Political association has no such status except in a handful of locations.

In other words, no dice.


5 posted on 01/11/2021 2:46:57 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: rey

They only allow bakeries with all turnovers?


6 posted on 01/11/2021 2:56:33 PM PST by PGalt
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To: rey

Excellent thread


7 posted on 01/11/2021 2:58:01 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: humblegunner

”Aw, snap!!”

8 posted on 01/11/2021 3:03:17 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: rey

Well that’s a great question. The answer is, the left and the billionaires can do as they please.


9 posted on 01/11/2021 3:14:39 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: rey
Why can a baker be forced to make a cake for something he disagrees with but a social media platform may pick and choose?
For that matter
Philippians 2:9

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

. . . wold make a splendid advertisement, wouldn’t it?

10 posted on 01/11/2021 3:30:37 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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