Imagine the madness of participating on a website that bans users for their political views.
I know!
There are a great many people on the Twittsewer that scare you with their lack of knowledge.
Well I participate in FreeRepublic, and some people are zotted here for reasons pertaining to their views.
And yet, I am fine with that. But I am not at all fine with Twitter doing the same?
Does this make me a hypocrite and someone holding double standards?
Not at all. I make what I think a very reasonable distinction between websites that operate as a club of likeminded people and websites that operate as a conduit of general communication. It is madness to treat them the same under the law.
It is very reasonable for people in a church for example to ask someone to leave who stands up and starts arguing during the pastor giving the sermon. Even if the person arguing has great points and is completely right about the issue. The point is, people did not go to the church to listen to the guy, but to worship and listen to the pastor.
But if the guy goes to a public area and is telling others there about how he thinks the pastor wrong, he should not be shut down as it is not an area put aside for a special purpose or interest. If he buys a billboard ad to get his message across, he should not be banned either. On the other hand he should not expect the church to put his message on their own sign.
I say lets apply these common sense principles to the internet. Public areas vs special interest areas.
Imagine the madness of surrendering the site to the Left.
You have to mix it up, or surrender.
Imagine the madness of participating on a website that claims to be non-partisan that bans users for their political views.
Fixed it.