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Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by SpaceRaccoon on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:38PM (#25695687)
So as we soon as we pass law making it a protected class, that argument will be null and void, correct?

Great, I cannot wait!

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by dragonwriter on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:24AM (#25697940)
> So as we soon as we pass law making it a protected class, that argument will be null and void, correct?

For business discrimination in general, maybe.

For specifically constraining the expressive freedom of media (including social media) businesses, quite plausibly not, because a statute designating a protected class can't negate other people’s First Amendment rights, since the Constitution is superior to statute law.

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by jude- on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:43PM (#25695736)
I wouldn't hold your breath.
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by SpaceRaccoon on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:56PM (#25695846)
That's alright, I'm sure you would have said the same to civil rights advocates in the '60s, too.
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by jude- on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:36PM (#25697067)
Except, the civil rights advocates in the 1960's would have agreed with me. Denying business to racist institutions, starting with the Montgomery bus system, is how they got started.