That's because complaining about social media censorship is inherently silly as long as all those social media platforms are private businesses/services and not provided and controlled by the government.
It's not silly. We're gonna have to agree to disagree though. We just have different moral expectations of social platforms and you seem unable to move past "1A doesn't apply so they should censor everyone".
Moral expectations? It's their legal right as businesses in America. They get to decide what happens within their property, be it physical or digital. Forcing them to allow certain things to happen would be censorship.
It's not that they should censor everyone, it's that the alternative is itself government censorship. There is no functional difference between the government forcing a business to not let people say certain things in their establishment, and the government forcing a business to let people say certain things in their establishment.
If you come into my old timey soda pop shoppe and start breaking all the clearly posted "No Anachronism" signs by talking about how much you love cell phones and legally enforced desegregation, I have the right to boot you right out the door, even though there's no law against anachronism. It's my property. If you want to dictate what people can do in places they own, try a communist country instead.
I never said I wanted any business owner or online space to be forced to allow freedom of speech. That'd be like forcing a Christian cake shop to make a cake for a gay couple (or whatever it was).
2nd paragraph I'm having a real hard time following. Might be cuz I'm at the end of my overnight shift though.
It would be pretty fun to work at one of those places though lol.
I'm still failing to see the moral expectations. Are you just saying you want companies to want the same things as you? I mean, it's nice to want things but that's no inherent moral imperative. In the same way as one could argue that if you don't want to be told you can't have a cake, don't go to that cake shop - if you don't like how a platform polices its own content, go to a different platform.
Good luck on the rest of your graveyard! Did you have to work an extra hour last Sunday? That was the most annoying thing about night work for me - DST ending no longer meant an extra hour of sleep, but instead a 13-hour work night.
That's because complaining about social media censorship is inherently silly as long as all those social media platforms are private businesses/services and not provided and controlled by the government.
Also, it's really more of a time-out than a ban.
It's not silly. We're gonna have to agree to disagree though. We just have different moral expectations of social platforms and you seem unable to move past "1A doesn't apply so they should censor everyone".
I'm just using the same word that the mods use.
Moral expectations? It's their legal right as businesses in America. They get to decide what happens within their property, be it physical or digital. Forcing them to allow certain things to happen would be censorship.
It's not that they should censor everyone, it's that the alternative is itself government censorship. There is no functional difference between the government forcing a business to not let people say certain things in their establishment, and the government forcing a business to let people say certain things in their establishment.
If you come into my old timey soda pop shoppe and start breaking all the clearly posted "No Anachronism" signs by talking about how much you love cell phones and legally enforced desegregation, I have the right to boot you right out the door, even though there's no law against anachronism. It's my property. If you want to dictate what people can do in places they own, try a communist country instead.
I never said I wanted any business owner or online space to be forced to allow freedom of speech. That'd be like forcing a Christian cake shop to make a cake for a gay couple (or whatever it was).
2nd paragraph I'm having a real hard time following. Might be cuz I'm at the end of my overnight shift though.
It would be pretty fun to work at one of those places though lol.
I'm still failing to see the moral expectations. Are you just saying you want companies to want the same things as you? I mean, it's nice to want things but that's no inherent moral imperative. In the same way as one could argue that if you don't want to be told you can't have a cake, don't go to that cake shop - if you don't like how a platform polices its own content, go to a different platform.
Good luck on the rest of your graveyard! Did you have to work an extra hour last Sunday? That was the most annoying thing about night work for me - DST ending no longer meant an extra hour of sleep, but instead a 13-hour work night.