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To: DiogenesLamp

I feel your frustration and feel it’s time for some new laws about discrimination in regards to ideology.

Then I start thinking about what a slippery slope that can be and wonder if that’s the best immediate action to take. Of course getting congress to do anything usually happens at the speed of cold molasses on a winter day in Greenland.

I’d like to see some lawsuits against companies that discriminate and see where that goes first.

I’d also like to see private companies advertise they are like Gab and believe in free speech who are not controlled by commie leftists like PayPal, Stripe, and Joyent.


69 posted on 10/28/2018 3:11:42 PM PDT by Boomer (Better Dead Than Dem)
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To: Boomer
I feel your frustration and feel it’s time for some new laws about discrimination in regards to ideology.

Then I start thinking about what a slippery slope that can be and wonder if that’s the best immediate action to take.

I don't think it's a slippery slope if we make a law that says censorship is illegal. A lot of people try to flip my point to creating censorship, but this is just misdirection. If the law says private companies cannot censor members of the public, then what is the downside?

Government preventing censorship is a far different thing from government causing censorship, though many people try to make the one argument into the very opposite of what is being put forth.

I’d like to see some lawsuits against companies that discriminate and see where that goes first.

I keep hearing such being threatened, but I never see any such going forward. Big pocket corporations can tie up any such effort for decades.

75 posted on 10/28/2018 7:34:27 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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