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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shouldn't all Americans be free speech absolutists?  [/quote]

You already know free speech has limits. Why feign stupidity?[/quote]

Tell us, oh Wise One - how do you define those limits?

Let me guess: “anything and everything I disagree with”, right? [/quote]

Actually, the supreme court has been quite clear about those limits over the years. The current policies in place by the vast majority of tech companies grossly exceed the limits defined by the supreme court. [/quote]

Because tech companies are not the government and have freedom themselves.[/quote]

:roll: 
 No one never said they were the government or they didn’t have freedoms. I was responding to the previous comment about how limits of free speech are defined. Please at least make an attempt to stay on topic.[/quote]
People calling what Twitter does “censorship” and calling Twitter “the de facto public square” definitely don’t think these companies have their own freedoms.[/quote]

Look at it a different way:

What if I owned a company that essentially had a monopoly on production and distribution of electrical power in your area? And I refused to sell electricity to people I didn’t like based on their politics? People like you, for example. You certainly have the freedom to stick a bunch of solar panels in your yard and make your own electricity. Or install a generator. Or you could just move somewhere else. You have lots of options, right? Why should I be forced to sell you electricity if I don’t like you? Get your own electricity!

Or let’s say I own FedEx or UPS. I won’t ship packages to your house because I don’t like the way you vote. That’d be ok, right? Isn’t that my freedom as a company? You have other options, you know. You can drive to the facility or port where the item you ordered was made, and pick it up yourself, can’t you?

Or maybe I have the only restaurant in your small town. And I refuse to serve you because you’re a leftist. You can go to some other restaurant in some other town. But that’s my freedom as a restauranteur, right ? And you’d support that, right? 
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+1. [/quote]

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