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To: Borges
If you go on someone’s property, the only “right” you have is the right to leave.

Any communications system which relies on the PUBLIC to participate is not anyone's "property." If you want it to be your property, make it a private club with the public not allowed. If it accepts public speech, it must be forced to accept all of the public's speech, with the usual exceptions regarding illegal speech.

People need to stop regarding communications systems as anyone's property. If they serve the mass public, they are a "commons." If they don't want to be a commons, they need to refrain from soliciting the public.

We wouldn't tolerate any communications system that refused to carry any speech by blacks, and we should not tolerate any communications system that refuses to carry speech for some 40% of the public that regard themselves as conservatives.

Don't want to carry speech? Don't be a communications company.

This thing is a real threat to our lives, our society, and our system of governance. It is akin to private corporations having a monopoly on the air which we all need to breath.

97 posted on 10/29/2018 1:58:18 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

You are aware this site routinely expels posters right? These social media sites are not public utilities. They are not subject to “Common Carrier’ law like telephone service.


100 posted on 10/29/2018 2:05:35 PM PDT by Borges
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