It is strange to hear the phrase, "private corporations can do what they want" in 2021. That has not been the case for over a century now, and is shockingly ignorant of the fact that the world imposes literally tens of thousands of regulations on private corporations already.
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The decision, as it always has been, is which freedoms we want corporations to have, and which we do not. That is a public policy choice, and it is not answered by an absolute statement like they "can do what they want because they're private", as if they are not subject to law.
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If you think a private corporation should have the right to censor, _say why you think that should be the law_. Don't pretend that somehow private corporations aren't already restrainted by thousands of laws, so somehow it would be "weird" if they were barred from censoring.
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Same reason a live Christian childrens show should be allowed to go to an ad break if a participant hijacks the show and starts going ISIS on them all.
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Ah, yes - the standard we all look to when evaluating public accommodation laws: the "whether or not there should be an ad break in an ISIS-interrupted live Christian childrens' show" hypothetical.
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