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Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo... by ByteJockey on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:59PM (#23411853)
Can't they?

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).

Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo... by stale2002 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:10AM (#23412308)
> 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 (#23412502)
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 (#23418335)
> 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.