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A comment on Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour. Parent comment

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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