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Re:Rackspace Shuts Down Koran-Burning Web Site by tptacek on Thursday September 09, 2010 @04:40PM (#1676859)
Counter-counter-example: you operate a mall and the Ku Klux Klan wants to lease one of your shops.

Note that discrimination because of "race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or familial status" in the sale or rental of real estate is unlawful under the FHA only in the housing market.

What's your point? The issue here isn't whether I think people should or shouldn't be allowed to burn the Koran; it's "what does the 1st Amendment mean?"

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Re:Rackspace Shuts Down Koran-Burning Web Site by rbanffy on Thursday September 09, 2010 @04:50PM (#1676895)
The understanding of the 1st amendment is your straw man. By refuting it you believe you successfully refute the argument that this is, in effect, a disturbing form of limitation of free speech by a private corporation who happens to own the machines used to manifest the speech they disagree with.
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