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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by andrepd on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:55AM (#20123307)
If they started banning all Muslims from their platform, would you be okay with it? I guess not, so the power is hardly "absolute, irrevocable, and arbitrary". Which is a ridiculous proposition. We absolutely can legislate about what private corporations can and cannot do.
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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by krapp on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:04AM (#20123347)
>If they started banning all Muslims from their platform, would you be okay with it?

No, but again, that would already be illegal, whereas Google demonetizing content due to violence is not.

Moderating or banning content for any reason is not equivalent to discrimination against a protected class, but fair enough - "absolute, irrevocable, and arbitrary" regarding content and accounts, where legal.

My characterization of the rights Google has over user supplied content versus the rights users have over Google is still far more accurate than not.

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