stevesarmpit

> gas and electricity and companies shouldn't have the right to cut you off on ideological grounds or because your spew out so called hate speech

All of us here in the US are entitled and reserve the right to do business with whom we want as long as it doesn't violate discrimination laws, which focus on race, religion and things like that - not opinion about whether there are lizard people ruling the government or that an election was "stolen" because a few people made up some good stories about it but there is no actual proof that can be viewed in person...at all.

Again, free speech isn't a legal thing that is a right to an individual in all settings. It is baked into the constitution, but that has zero to do with dinner parties and more to how government can act when dealing with people speaking their minds.

The real answer is that neither Google nor Apple should have been allowed to create walled garden unregulated marketplaces that we're forced to use if we don't want our devices hacked.

There is only one logical conclusion and that is that Apple and Google will eventually boot Facebook off their platforms due to increasing amounts of risk associated with mobs and things that allow them to form.

Free Speech isn't a thing that applies to Internet companies, only the government and how they must deal with people who wish to speak in public forums.

Internet providers and services aren't "public forums" given their infrastructure is not a public space, but a private space they control. Whether or not someone thinks these services are "censoring" things or not isn't a real argument, again for the reason it must be a ruling authority that violates law by removing a person's speech from a given area or location, which then is censorship.

A company can't censor someone who is on their platform given the platform is owned, not ruled.

No big deal to run your own ASN, especially when your provider only has two companies advertising upstream. Both of those companies are providing Epik their network.

Epik runs a wide variety of hate filled content purveyors. Wouldn't be a horribly difficult thing to advertise their routes on BGP and black hole their asses.

I remember this happening by accident to Cox Cable.