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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by FeepingCreature on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:34AM (#24078342)
Maybe it's cause I'm european, but if it were up to me: yes, in a heartbeat. The closer to (local) monopoly a company comes, the more it advertises itself as a universal provider, the less choice it should have in its customers. The easiest way to do this would be a radical expansion of the notion of protected class to cover at the least exercise of any fundamental right (such as speech).

To be explicit since for some reason people here are afraid to come out and say this: yes, I want to take that freedom away from American businesses and I would if I could. (I'd take it away from European businesses too.) That's what a law is - that's what every law is.

Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by three_seagrass on Friday August 07, 2020 @01:11AM (#24078574)
In the U.S. at least, grocery stores are not monopolies. Neither is Facebook.

Both have competitors who can supply fungible services to the market, some of which are typically very close, sometimes "just a click away".

Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by FeepingCreature on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:39AM (#24080815)
Agree with grocery stores, disagree with Facebook. It should be fungible, ie. required by law to expose APIs for interoperability with other social networks, but it isn't. Imagine if you needed a separate credit card per store you visited.
Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by nradov on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:27PM (#24083710)
Before Visa and Mastercard became widespread, it was common for some stores to only accept their own proprietary charge cards. Even today, stores aren't legally required to accept particular cards. Some don't take American Express or Discover. Others only accept cash.
Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by FeepingCreature on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:01AM (#24090645)
Right but cash is this for stores. If there's a special kind of cash that's only accepted at one store, I don't know if that's legal but I feel it either isn't or at least shouldn't be.