Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by JumpCrisscross on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:41PM
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> I'm having trouble believing that most people making this argument normally promote free markets
I’m a staunch free marketer and First Amendment advocate. I think this is a freedom of assembly issue. Amazon should not be forced to assemble with these customers.
If anything, this same group has fought for a more extreme version of this freedom through its don’t-sell-cakes-to-gays schtick.
(To be clear, I support e.g. the Westboro Baptist Church’s right to speech. They say awful things. But they have the right to. If they started organising murders or lootings of gay-owned businesses, on the other hand, I would not consider their actions protected.)
I’m a staunch free marketer and First Amendment advocate. I think this is a freedom of assembly issue. Amazon should not be forced to assemble with these customers.
If anything, this same group has fought for a more extreme version of this freedom through its don’t-sell-cakes-to-gays schtick.
(To be clear, I support e.g. the Westboro Baptist Church’s right to speech. They say awful things. But they have the right to. If they started organising murders or lootings of gay-owned businesses, on the other hand, I would not consider their actions protected.)