it can simultaneously be true that Alex Jones deserves what he got but it is deeply problematic that Facebook / Google / Apple / Twitter can give it. let’s not suddenly go all glibertarian about what private businesses with immense power can do.
Im not so interested in narrow legal definitions, either. I imagine that if the same logic were applied to someone on the basis of their, for eg, communist politics or feminist activism, few would accept as justification the mere fact that Twitter or FB are private enterprises.
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Right. Which is why it’s shortsighted for those who might be sympathetic to, say, feminist or socialist ideas, to justify the Jones banishment on a “private property” basis. Celebrate the banishment, by all means. But worry about the process.
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