Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo...
by stale2002 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:10AM
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> Can't they?
For every single grocery store in the world to starve the population of people who do not vote for decreasing their taxes?
No, I am pretty sure that society would do something about that, if this happened.
Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo...
by hsikka on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:43AM
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I’m not sure I follow this line of thought. If all the grocery stores did this, then I agree society would certainly take action: build better, more open grocery stores. surely the same principle applies here, A business like Twitter can choose to block a group of ideologies. If there is enough want in the part of people to propagate those ideologies, they’ll build a better forum and if those ideas are successful, that forum will be. Competitive, capitalistic behavior handles this.
Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo...
by stale2002 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:01PM
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> build better, more open grocery stores.
Not necessarily, no. Many grocery stores have a bit of a monopoly in certain areas. It may not be possible for competitors to replace them instantly.
And a lot of people would starve before perfect competition, which doesn't exist, comes around to eventually replacing them.
They can't discriminate based on protected traits, but political opinions aren't really protected on a federal level.
It might not be a good business idea, but I think it's legal (correct me if I'm off base on my legal positions).