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Re:Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitors busin... by Jiro on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:21PM (#36578237)
Every time someone complains about being kicked off of Facebook or Youtube or some other such service for political reasons, the response from just about everyone is "they're a private business, they have a right to kick you off for any reason they want to with no explanation".

How isnt that also true here? They're a private business, they have a right to kick you off by automated systems if they think it's cheaper to have a couple of errors in the automatic system than to pay for manual reviewers. Hey, they're a private business and don't have to justify themselves, right?

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Re:Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitors busin... by SQueeeeeL on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:49PM (#36578619)
Not sure if you were responding to the right comment, but yeah, this is a pretty major argument for who unchecked private centralization is very dangerous. The main solutions to this contradiction are website keeping healthy competition between firms to have a rich ecosystem of competition or to place everything in a centralized location controlled by the govt where things like access are intensely regulated (i.e why every subway and post office is ACA accessible)
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