Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by base698 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:45PM
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I'm sure John Stuart Mill will be scraped from the internet soon but it's still worthy of protection:
> Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
If Trump, et al, want to pretend that these private properties are actually essential, and the owners of them don't have the right to set whatever conditions, perhaps they should nationalize them, and auction them off to an acceptable group of sole US citizen bidders who agree to whatever standard.
...or the US could go back to respect property rights, despite it supposedly being out of fashion these days.