[humanrebar]

> There are plenty of options in the modern era to promulgate your views without the support of any company.

Who said anything about support? Do DNSs "support" every website they host? Why would forums be supporting all the speech they host then?

> Companies do not owe it to you to let you promote your views using their infrastructure.

I don't think of it in terms of obligations. I do think supporting free speech and earnest dialogue is a social responsibility. That's why the first amendment was written to start with. The same negatives seen when government curtails speech also apply when corporations do the same thing.

[notl4wy3r]

> Do DNSs "support" every website they host?

Yes, in the sense we use in the tech industry where we say we "support" a particular use case -- i.e. enable it/allow it to happen.

> I do think supporting free speech and earnest dialogue is a social responsibility.

I don't. Or, rather, I think it exists in a constellation of other social responsibilities, and is subordinate to some others.