Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote for Biden

Re:Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote... by Grustaf on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:53AM (#24868476)

I don't agree with his alarmism and think it was stupid to send it, but why would it be regulated?

I think this is very different from Facebook or Twitter skew feeds in favour of some political cause.

First of all they are essentially public utilities, they shouldn't regulate speech as long as it's legal.

Secondly they do it without people's knowledge. David Barret's embarrassing email is completely honest and open.

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Re:Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote... by ahpearce on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:05AM (#24868550)

Seems like a lot of people screaming about this sort of thing are the same people that support Citizens United. I don't see how they're much different. Free speech is free speech, whether or not you have access to an email list of 10m.

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Re:Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote... by rektide on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:38PM (#24873841)

> First of all they are essentially public utilities, they shouldn't regulate speech as long as it's legal.

Hard no. There is no legal nor moral basis for this. Absolutely not.

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Re:Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote... by Grustaf on Sunday October 25, 2020 @05:32PM (#24890079)

There is no legal basis for them NOT to censor? What does that mean?

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Re:Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote... by rektide on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:22AM (#24897139)

They are not utilities in any way. They are private entities.

They can control speech however they want in their realm. If they want to censor, it's completely in their right.

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