[lurk]

It is not the government’s role to control private companies and their philosophical stands.

If conservatives want a free speech venue, create a competitor to facebook, you tube, Google, Twitter.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"If conservatives want a free speech venue, create a competitor to facebook, you tube, Google, Twitter."

If people just wanted a conservative web site where they could preach to the choir, then it already exists: FreeRepublic.

What people like Steven Crowder, Stefan Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, Lauren Southern, etc. want is a place where they can broadcast their message to people of all political persuasions in hopes of broadening the support for conservative ideas.

That won't happen if they all move to FreeRepublic or places like Vimeo with fewer and more homogeneous viewers.

Corporations only exist as fictitious people because they are granted this privilege by the government. That privilege can be taken away. YouTube hosts videos providing tips to sex tourists visiting Thailand. If so, then what set of Terms of Service will allow that but prevent people from advocating for conservative opinions?

My own take is that Supreme Court justices are chosen by politicians beholden to large corporations. They will decide this case in favor of large corporations. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and the companies that advertise on these platforms would all like politics, especially conservative politics, removed from the internet. So eventually most conservative thought will either be eliminated from the internet or compartmentalized safely in places like FreeRepublic. This will happen regardless of whatever legal, economic or philosophical arguments anyone can muster.

NOTE: Very few of my conservative friends have even heard of FreeRepublic. And these are very, very conservative friends who watch the news and surf the internet for the latest information. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are a ghetto.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Twitter says it won’t suspend Louis Farrakhan over tweet comparing Jews to termites

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697546/posts

Juxtopose that with this!

Pastor Andrew Brunson suspended on Twitter 2 days after release from Turkey (vanity)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3696640/posts

That’s right. He’s meeting Trump, so ban his Christian [bleep].