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That's the case for protected classes. I just think it should be expanded. It shouldn't be that way if media companies weren't coordinating behind the scenes to ban stuff together.…

:) Political opinions are more well-defined? At least political opinions are in realm of reality.

As an individual, when your speech is banned, it's all the same whether it's by an authoritarian government or by private companies.

That's exactly the argument for GDPR is. If an American megacorp doesn't want to respect the rights of non Americans then it shouldn't be allowed to profit at all from them. You ca…

The freedom of individuals is more important than the freedom of corporations. When the freedom of people to speak clashes with the freedom of corporations to not allow that speech…

I don't see that as a good counter example. That sort of content should be illegal anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farr...

It was coordinated behind locked doors with Google and Apple which are competitors.

All companies shutting them down without so much as a hearing in court will probably lead them to build parallel societies.

AWS's response was based on its legal right to shut down every customer it is biased against. Nothing was adjudicated in court.

Free speech approved by media giants. Everything else will be blockaded.

Political opinions should be a protected class (certainly more than religious opinions).

A message on Twitter: > Someone take this clown out NOW! #assassinatetrump utter evil this man! #DonaldTrump I’m on Twitter and it seems like this stuff is not uncommon there and s…

Americans sure like this bad faith argument. If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... If you're free to communicate anything on public owned spaces on the internet but …

That's not how it works. The decision was entirely political. Twitter is full of assassination calls but it's in no danger of getting banned: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinat…

Then Twitter should be banned too because it's full of calls for political assassinations: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinatetrump

There are tweets from 2016 calling for Trump's assassination. When is Apple going to take down the Twitter app? Here's just a search I did now: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassin…

Just accept collective punishment bro.

Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms. Although, intercourse is often used as short for "sexual intercourse". But you are pretty much asking for that joke (like when …

I guess that's part of the plan, give it for free and make it indispensable and then reap the rewards. Feels like a drug operation. :(

You might be living in a bubble if you think HN is alt-right. Trump got 46.9 % of the vote. He has nowhere near that level of support here.

It was peaceful. Very few people got murdered.

> I'd genuinely like clarity on why it's considered a matter of civil liberty to develop whatever you want and force Apple to distribute it on their store? Some value the civil lib…

3.17 billion in 2019 dollars, or 1.11 if you exclude the sunk costs.