Do you believe that sites who build platforms for others should allow free speech.

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Ka-pi96 said:

John2290 said:

I don't think this applies when you scale it up to platforms  s big as Twitter and the like though, people join regardless because everyone else does and the reason they die seems to be the censorship or in twitters case they repeatedly hurt themselves....or is it that people leave and they think they can fix it with censorship, I don't know.

Given your views on how platforms should handle speech in general do they still hold true when news is involved? Information sharing with real world implications.

We have so many laws to protect freedoms in the west yet not in this area, rights to the consumer right down to buying a carton of milk. Why should the internet, if it truly is a utility be any different?

Good question. Why do you want it to be different?

As it is if you walk into a shop and start shouting abuse at people the shop will ask you to leave, and if you refuse will call the police to make you leave. So why should shouting abuse at people on an internet website be any different?

  He's talking about being offensive, having a dissenting opinion, being rude,  wearing a shirt with a meme on it, telling edgy jokes, etc. Most businesses won't kick you out unless you're being bad enough to disrupt their business. Shouting abuse is a extreme example and not what we're talking about.

Websites and online services aren't really disrupted that much by a few people raising a fuss.  It's more like you acting like a dick in a part of a city, the rest of the city wouldn't even know you exist. Something closer to this overall would be like a utility service denying you service when there's no alternative around because you said a joke that offended some one.