Shaun KingVerified account

How would you feel if they, collectively, decided that to keep the net safe, you had to be put on the no-fly list?

Let's talk about social media.

I meant a no-fly list for social media. Sorry I took a short cut. ;-)

If you don't support free speech for people whose speech you detest then you don't support free speech.

@shaunking I wonder how Dave feels about players who kneel during the anthem. It is a free speech most don’t agree with, but yet here we are with respecting ideas and speech. Regardless of outlandish it is.

I totally support it. Without reservation. You are making some wrong assumptions about my politics.

No I just asked where you stand. However, the later part of my tweet was addressed to responses I knew I would get via reply or DM

Although, I agree with your overall sentiment. These platforms allows Alex Jones and his followers to expose what otherwise would grow underground and then explode without warning when none of us expect it. It's important to hear the pathology of the RW racists. #FreeSpeech

The first amendment protects you from government retaliation.

Yes but then what protects us from Corporate retaliation? What will we do when the same entities go after the Liberal and Progressive news outlets - as they have been doing for the past couple of years? Do we need to create public Social media platforms? #FreeSpeech

It’s called the free market, dude. They discovered they will make more money by dumping Jones’ lying ass than by keeping him. Nothing to do with censorship at all. This is what y’all want, for business practices to be unregulated.

Your misreading of my tweet is amusing. I am all for regulation. My point still is, I think it's absolutely paramount for "dissident" voices to be heard in the public sphere regardless of how vile the #hatespeech may be and regardless of Private/Public platform.

You missed mine. This has nothing to do with the content. This was a business decision. Not censorship. They dumped him because he was costing them money, not that they care about what he says. Pure capitalism at work.

Jones clearly violated their terms of service and got multiple warnings.