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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by gfodor on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:09AM (#25725236)
Claiming they are not public squares is correct and says very little.

When capitalism revealed its ability to create abusive monopolies, we created new laws to mitigate those harms.

When the whole worlds discourse flows through a few centralized social media companies, as a society we are free to imagine new legal concepts and regulations to deal with the unforeseeable consequences of these new phenomena.

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by nobody9999 on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:26AM (#25725371)
>When the whole worlds discourse flows through a few centralized social media companies, as a society we are free to imagine new legal concepts and regulations to deal with the unforeseeable consequences of these new phenomena.

Where did I say that wasn't appropriate?

I strongly believe that those big social media companies not only have too much power and influence, but that their business models are exploitative and morally repugnant.

Which is why I don't use them. At all.

In fact, I detailed[0] how I thought this issue should be dealt with the other day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688032

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by gfodor on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:46PM (#25732652)
We are in 100% agreement. I apologize for misunderstanding your comment.