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Re:Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange by Bud on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @01:17PM (#13024510)
This is not dangerous in any way. This is not a free speech issue. Commercial enterprises are entirely free to support business activity that they agree with, and refuse to support activity that they do not agree with. For those who are improperly conflating this issue with free speech or First Amendment rights in any way, you probably need a reminder:

https://xkcd.com/1357/

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Re:Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange by striking on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @01:58PM (#13024860)
History suggests otherwise, and so does the SCOTUS and ACLU.

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/

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Re:Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange by FoxHound56 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @01:39PM (#13024722)
It is not legally a free speech issue. Sure. But it is in fact very, very dangerous. The amount of power that huge tech companies such as Google and Facebook have over people these days is not very far off from the power a government has over people. If they are using that power to silence people they disagree with then that is extremely dangerous. Even if you happen to agree with them this time, you might not in the future. The fact that they are not a government is irrelevant to how dangerous these actions are, considering they have the power to silence millions of people. It is not in any meaningful way comparable to a restaurant owner showing you the door, considering the scale of these networks.
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