Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by whatshisface on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:03PM
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Sure, with a sufficiently expansive definition of political everything is, but in the comment above, "politics" meant "dealing with the preferences of." So the local Republican politician would want stuff if you wanted to build your chemical plant, maybe a new baseball field, maybe campaign contributions. Your Democrat-aligned hosting provider would want you to not run the center of operations of their enemies. You are using politics in the academic sense, where two kids playing tag are engaging in politics, but that is not the only thing that "politics" can be used to describe. Companies should follow the law, not politics.
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Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by 8note on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:31PM
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Companies should do what their owners want per capitalism. If that's politics, the company should do politics.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by whatshisface on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:38PM
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Sure, but the political system should not be such that the owners of the companies have anything to gain by wanting their companies to do politics.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by xxpor on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:12PM
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The only way that could ever be the case is if taxes ceased to exist. Until that point, there will always be lobbying for lower taxes.
Your objection really seems to be engagement in culture wars.