I was thinking about this very thing myself last night. Albeit, I probably wouldn't have made the headlines the same, the general content is. The point being, where is the line drawn between a corporate platform that has free will and a service that you pay for that cannot restrict use due to speech, religion, etc?
It took what, 72 hours, to go from "Twitter is a private platform, you still have your 1A just not here, make your own platform." to "what, no you can't look at your platform on this device you bought because the company that made it disagrees with you and no you can't operate that platform on this service you pay for because the company that sells that service disagrees with you." We are to the point that it's not much of a stretch to "no, you can't have running water because that's a private corporation and you are using that water for cooking, cleaning, and drinking in support of speech we don't agree with." I think that's protected in the law, and I'd argue that at the bare minimum Internet access should be protected under the law as well.
Not that the law matters anymore, or well the Constitution. What really bugs me is not even the government. It's the masses of people who see these things happen and are they grumbling about well they guess that's ok when they really disagree because they are afraid the KGB might hear about their opinion and show up? No, it's celebrated far and wide. "Censorship, yay, it's great because you aren't censoring me yet!" It's just pathetic.
I was thinking about this very thing myself last night. Albeit, I probably wouldn't have made the headlines the same, the general content is. The point being, where is the line drawn between a corporate platform that has free will and a service that you pay for that cannot restrict use due to speech, religion, etc?
It took what, 72 hours, to go from "Twitter is a private platform, you still have your 1A just not here, make your own platform." to "what, no you can't look at your platform on this device you bought because the company that made it disagrees with you and no you can't operate that platform on this service you pay for because the company that sells that service disagrees with you." We are to the point that it's not much of a stretch to "no, you can't have running water because that's a private corporation and you are using that water for cooking, cleaning, and drinking in support of speech we don't agree with." I think that's protected in the law, and I'd argue that at the bare minimum Internet access should be protected under the law as well.
Not that the law matters anymore, or well the Constitution. What really bugs me is not even the government. It's the masses of people who see these things happen and are they grumbling about well they guess that's ok when they really disagree because they are afraid the KGB might hear about their opinion and show up? No, it's celebrated far and wide. "Censorship, yay, it's great because you aren't censoring me yet!" It's just pathetic.