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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by starik36 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @08:24PM (#17930897)
That's like saying: Alex Jones is free to grow his own food on his land as much as he pleases. This supermarket has a policy not to sell food to people who violate our terms of service regarding hate speech.
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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by henryfjordan on Thursday September 06, 2018 @08:28PM (#17930924)
The supermarket is free to not sell to any particular person on the basis that they constantly engage in hate speech.

It gets murkier when they start banning classes of people or ban someone for something that puts them in a protected class, but any supermarket that banned Alex Jones for hate speech would be well within their rights.

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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by starik36 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @02:25AM (#17939727)
Ok, let's take it one step further. All the supermarkets in town decide not to sell food to Alex Jones, essentially condemning him to starvation. Are you still good with that?
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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by Atlantium on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:32PM (#17931236)
Exactly. You may not like that but that's the way it is.
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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by enraged_camel on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:13PM (#17931406)
If you go into a supermarket and constantly harass people, you will not only get banned, but probably arrested as well.
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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by fuball63 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @08:29PM (#17930930)
It isn't unreasonable for a supermarket to forbid someone that is disturbing the peace from entering.
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Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour by TheDong on Thursday September 06, 2018 @08:29PM (#17930932)
If you go into a supermarket and start spewing hate-speech, yes they have every right to ban you.

If you make other customers uncomfortable, they have every right to expel you.

Alex Jones is spewing hate-speech on twitter, making other twitter users feel unwelcome, and so on.

I don't see how this analogy is favorable to him at all. If you're abusive in a space to the point of causing mental pain to others, yes, you should be removed from it.

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