Re:I Helped Create the Milo Trolling Playbook
by wpietri on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:40AM
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UC Berkeley is not a business. It's a public university. The "UC" being short for "University of California".
I was addressing your notion about businesses, "this legal loophole, businesses can do what they want". And I presumed you were actually talking about businesses, because a) you mentioned Twitter, a business, and b) UC Berkeley is not a business.
> sure that's legally true perhaps [...] it's not right and against the idea of the first amendment
No. No, no, no. The idea of the First Amendment is not that you are owed a platform. It's just that the government cannot stop you from saying what you want in public or with your own platform. It starts out with "Congress shall make no law" for a reason.
That is not the idea of the First Amendment. It is your idea of the First Amendment. It's a common one, but that doesn't make it the right one, or the only one.
I was addressing your notion about businesses, "this legal loophole, businesses can do what they want". And I presumed you were actually talking about businesses, because a) you mentioned Twitter, a business, and b) UC Berkeley is not a business.
> sure that's legally true perhaps [...] it's not right and against the idea of the first amendment
No. No, no, no. The idea of the First Amendment is not that you are owed a platform. It's just that the government cannot stop you from saying what you want in public or with your own platform. It starts out with "Congress shall make no law" for a reason.
That is not the idea of the First Amendment. It is your idea of the First Amendment. It's a common one, but that doesn't make it the right one, or the only one.