not if it's a monopoly that we have no way to boycott.Turing Pharmaceuticals has patent or closed distribution on necessary meds
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I'm talking about whether its reasonable to criticise private companies for their decisions re: freedom of speech or not.
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my stance has previously been to let them do whatever they want, but now I'm unsure. Without equality, it leads to imbalance
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THis is a different issue to whether or not private companies which platform talks shld be required to allow free speech
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I don't think that's different at all. Imagine a town has 1 company. If that company censors or bans speakers, town is cut off
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Then have more companies. You can't make the only one that sets up platform the things you want it to.
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you just described a major problem the US has. We DON'T have more companies. Monopolies exist, and they're not going away.
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We're talking about places people can express their views. When Twitter banned some ppl, other online companies set up.
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@sherlockmichael Contrary to opinions I may have expressed before, I also have to accept this right must extend to cake bakeries -
I'm torn on this.My libertarian impulses agree but not selling products you sell to certain ppl coz identity?
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Caused me some heart-searching too, but then so does Britain selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
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Sure, there are exceptions for valid reasons. I think it's OK not to sell guns to the mentally ill.
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I don't advocate confusing ideologies with identity either.
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I tend to think that a business has the same rights as an individual....
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I'd be more sold on this if ppl identified their discriminations on the door.
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"We don't sell shoes to black people." At least then black ppl wldn't try & everyone else could boycott.
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