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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by rndgermandude on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:42PM (#18766227)
>I don't think anyone is saying that there should be a law that forces Patreon to allow everyone on their platform.

I am saying essentially that; there should be a law that forces Patreon and other companies (those oligarchic payment processors, Google, Facebook, twitter, etc) which basically qualify as utility companies to allow people on their platform, unless those people abuse(d) those platforms for severe unlawful activities (crimes). Or they should lose their service provider status and all those "safe harbor" exceptions that come with it, e.g. DMCA safe harbor.

Same as the your local electricity provider (probably a monopoly in your area; tho you can always run a generator aka your "soapbox" pendant all those comments in here are talking about :p) should not be allowed to stop serving you because you wrote a blog ranting about their bad customer service.

I am also saying: Companies are not people, and (their) money is not speech, and I'm all for limiting companies' "free speech" in that their "free speech" cannot discriminate other people. Companies are already limited that way anyway to a degree, be it anti-discrimination legislation when it comes to the work place or the current state of "protected classes" on which they may not base a refusal of service.

Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by TimothyBJacobs on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:29AM (#18767569)
You pay for utilities, you don't pay for YouTube or Twitter. Forcing them to carry content is in effect forcing them to either take a loss on that content, or force advertisers to advertise alongside content that they probably don't want associated with their brand.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by rndgermandude on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:48PM (#18774937)
The customer doesn't set the price. if YouTube and Twitter set their price too low, that's their own fault. They have to figure that out, just like a utility company which provides water or electricity: arrive at a sustainable price that isn't punitive, grossly abusive of the customers and discriminatory.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:18PM (#18766751)
It's going to take constitutional amendment to put those views into law. I'm guessing that we will have already solved this problem one way or another before you could possibly get that ratified.