Re:Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts i...
by true_religion on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:25AM
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Alexandria, Virginia had a whites only bar until sometime in the mid 2000s.
There was no state law against racial discrimination and the bar only used local products so didn’t engage in interstate commerce.
You see, unless we specifically make laws to protect a class of people, private companies will discriminate on that basis.
I guess the question here is do we want to make “people who lie and spread disinformation about important matters” into a protected class. As if is now, we barely discriminate against them. You have to lie for 4 solid months, culminating in a violent riot against the central government before any private entity will ban you.
There was no state law against racial discrimination and the bar only used local products so didn’t engage in interstate commerce.
You see, unless we specifically make laws to protect a class of people, private companies will discriminate on that basis.
I guess the question here is do we want to make “people who lie and spread disinformation about important matters” into a protected class. As if is now, we barely discriminate against them. You have to lie for 4 solid months, culminating in a violent riot against the central government before any private entity will ban you.