Do you also ask that question of all the other companies that serve "people who push ivermectin", etc.? The power company, the bank that holds their money, the grocery store that sells them food, etc.?
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Replying to @cmuratori
No, because selling food to a conspiracy theorist doesn't harm anyone. Giving them a platform to spread dangerous misinformation does hurt people. E.g. the Bret Weinstein fan who didn't get vaccinated and later died of Covid.
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Replying to @cmuratori
Yeah, I quite reasonably think that the regulations you apply to businesses depends on what the business does, crazy!
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Replying to @HjalmarAstrom
No, I mean, do you see how that worked much better than saying, "private corporations can do what they want?" You actually said the thing you wanted, which was an actual public policy statement, so now we could have a real discussion :)
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Replying to @cmuratori
Oohhh I see, sorry. Well yeah, I lean to the left so I'm never going to think that corporations can do "whatever they want"
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Replying to @HjalmarAstrom
Personally I don't think anyone actually believes corporations can do whatever they want, right or left. I think they just haven't thought through what that would actually mean :)
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Replying to @cmuratori @HjalmarAstrom
Tbh I think it is ~95% of the time a shortcut for "the government should not have the power to tell anyone what opinions to express, aside from government employees while speaking for the government - i.e. private entities can express themselves however they want."
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Replying to @dman4835 @HjalmarAstrom
I am including that in the "very strange thing to think in 2021". If a strict libertarian said that to me, I'd believe them. But anyone else, I wouldn't, because they can't possibly think that?
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To think that, you would have to believe that a private company like Amazon would be immune from any legal action if they, for example, posted signs throughout their warehouses with derogatory statements about women and minorities.
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Again, maybe people do think that. But in 2021, it just seems like a completely anachronistic opinion. I really can't believe that most of the people saying the "they're private corporations" line really believe that the law should allow Amazon to do that?
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