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by Buge 3201 days ago
Does the government deny passports or driver licenses/IDs to people on those lists? Because that would be the equivalent here.

I'm not saying the government wouldn't do it. I'm saying you would have constitutional basis to sue, which you don't have for companies.

Some lawsuits against the no fly list have been successful. https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/victory-no-fly-l...

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I'm not sure that it would be seen as equivalent here given the overall push away from net neutrality over the last decade. I could see many government officials making the (out-dated) argument that the internet is a non-essential service and you online profiles are not as critical as physical government-issues IDs.

Edit: Forgot this post was a couple days old, working through my HN backlog haha