I never said they were. But there's no moral difference even if there is a legal one. Bluntly, Shopify clearly thinks it's OK to not sell their software to people who might express ideas they don't approve of.
By extension, they're also maligning half of America as either too stupid or immoral to have good reasons for voting for Trump.
If these merchants aren't worthy of business, by extension, neither are those voters.
But now Spotify see the toxicity of the Trump brand as exceeding their ability to profit from it. This doesn't make them heroes, just greedy cowards.
Sure, as they should have a right to. If they chose to not sell to Biden's campaign they should also be free to do so.
>>By extension, they're also maligning half of America as either too stupid or immoral to have good reasons for voting for Trump.
Your extension is so wild it not only extended past this conversation, it left this solar system. Are you projecting your own beliefs?
"In the South, racists didn't want to do business with black people, and the government intervened and said they had to"
Again, business <-> customer relation is protected. Business <-> business protection relation is not protected in any way shape or form. As a business owner you can stop doing business with any other company for any reason, including the protected reasons, because while corporations might be people in the US, the protected classes protection does not apply in this sense. You could say you don't want to do business with another company because their CEO is a man or a woman, or because you don't agree with their sexuality or their religion or any reason you like and that's allowed in its entirety. Business to business relations are not protected this way.