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To: DannyTN
If I understand the intent of the legislation is to ensure everyone gets to speak. That when it comes to big tech companies nobody gets to censure.

No one is stopping people from speaking. The question is can the government force a private entity like Twitter to publish speech they don't agree with.

Just because big tech is big doesn't mean they lose their fundamental rights.

20 posted on 03/05/2021 8:01:20 PM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo
No one is stopping people from speaking.

That is an out and out lie. They are doing exactly that. They are no longer content to relentlessly push their own viewpoints, they are striking at the ability of others to ever have a voice.

They were contracted for a service and unilaterally broke that contract in order to stop speech. It is the acme of stupid to claim that is not what they are doing.

This is why no one takes libertarians seriously: stupidly esoteric positions based on taking a good principle to suicidal extremes.

21 posted on 03/05/2021 8:18:51 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: semimojo

“The question is can the government force a private entity like Twitter to publish speech they don’t agree with.”

Hmmm, I don’t know...Can they force them to bake a cake?


27 posted on 03/06/2021 6:03:40 PM PST by Freeman1969 (The Republicans are the Washington Generals of Politics. They show up and play but never win.)
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