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I'm so sick and tired of seeing a company silence free speech, but then as soon as someone doesn't agree with what is being said, the answer is, "but they are a private business." Have some god damn principles, either you support free speech, or you don't, it doesn't matter what is being said, imbeciles.


They are a private business means there is not legal impediment to what they are doing. They are free to do this all day long. That doesn't mean as an individual I have to support them. There's no contradiction between saying there are free to do this, but I don't support it, or being against this but allowing some other actions to that shut down some categories of free speech. Not everyone believes in a blanket right to all speech in all situations.




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