Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "...
by undersuit on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:06PM
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Nah, even the wedding cake was an issue. The city of Lakewood set aside that area of the market for commercial business. The citizens of Lakewood financially support the government. The government grants them access and ensures that the cakes are safe for everyone to eat not just straight people.
Make all the cakes you want for a limited clientele out of your house.
That's fine when we're talking about mom-and-pop baptist bakers that don't want to bake your gay wedding cake, or little mastodon instances that don't want Nazis coming in. (An example from both the social left and social right to choose whom they associate with - but that's not what we're debating.)
But when you're dealing with 100M MAUs or daily transaction volumes in the billions, you're no longer a person - you're infrastructure. A public square. And moreover these giant companies are few and they all move in lockstep with one another, which means you have no avenue to turn to when you get removed.