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A comment on PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars. Parent comment
I’m saying the what is far more important in this case than the why.
Speech is a fundamental freedom and getting a baker to make you a wedding cake is not.
> What about the business' "freedom of speech"?
PayPal is free to say they don’t like Alex Jones.
Facebook is free to put out a notification telling people Alex Jones is a liar.
I’m guessing you are really asking about freedom of association?
Provided there are clear alternatives then I don’t normally have a problem with a private company deciding who they want to do business with.
But that’s not the case here with social media or with credit card payment processing.
If there were thousands of alternatives available then it wouldn’t matter.
Instead there are only a handful of major corporations that control the respective markets and they appear to be colluding to deplatform Alex Jones.
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I’m saying the what is far more important in this case than the why.
Speech is a fundamental freedom and getting a baker to make you a wedding cake is not.
> What about the business' "freedom of speech"?
PayPal is free to say they don’t like Alex Jones.
Facebook is free to put out a notification telling people Alex Jones is a liar.
I’m guessing you are really asking about freedom of association?
Provided there are clear alternatives then I don’t normally have a problem with a private company deciding who they want to do business with.
But that’s not the case here with social media or with credit card payment processing.
If there were thousands of alternatives available then it wouldn’t matter.
Instead there are only a handful of major corporations that control the respective markets and they appear to be colluding to deplatform Alex Jones.