contestgamer said:
Yeah anyone could be a troll. And anyone could be nice. That's freedom. The current system punishes people that we dont consider to have socially acceptable opinions and deplatforms them from society. You're hurting those people just because they're trolls, mean-spirited, etc what have you. The thing is it wouldnt effect you to have them on - I'm never forced on to AJ's FB page or youtube page. I ignore it. Every few months I check out one of his crazy meme videos for a laugh and thats it. I dont see how having bad people on these platforms is harmful. They can be ignored.
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Kindly show us where you have a Constitutional right to the use of someone else's platform for your free speech. SPOILER: You don't. You have the right only to speak, not the right to force others to broadcast your message.
The most the Constitution guarantees you is to give speeches on community property or to broadcast your views from and using your own private property. Your "free speech" rights end at someone else's private property line, and that includes servers owned by a private entity. My property rights >>>>>>>> your "free speech" rights while you are on my property.
Jones can pick any platform that will agree to have him. In doing so, he agrees to abide by their rules, no matter how stupid he or you may think they are. He is also welcome to stand at an off-ramp from I-35 and broadcast his views, as that is public property. Mark Zuckerberg is not responsible for giving him a voice. Tim Cook is not responsible for giving him a signal boost. Only Alex Jones is responsible for giving Alex Jones a voice.
Apple and Facebook are under zero obligation to host Jones in the same way that I'm not required by any law to host a Klan rally, or even a church ice cream social, on my property. Their servers are their property, not mine, yours, or the government's. They can set the rules for the use of the servers. They can kick you off for use of their servers. You agree to the TOS when you make an account. Just because the right doesn't agree with FB's decision to ban Jones does not give them any right to use the government to commandeer Facebook at the end of a gun barrel. They can go find another platform and be mad somewhere else, and maybe give Facebook some market competition. Your feelings on "hate speech" are not important as you are not the owner of that platform. Only the views of the owner matter.
Public regulation of Facebook as a utility IS a blatant violation of the Constitution, as the government would then be able to regulate what Facebook, can or can't say. Good luck getting 38 states to agree to amend the Constitution to allow regulating FB as a utility. The Northeast alone has enough states to block any such action.