[onychomys]

I'm sure the Nazis and Sandy Hook Truthers will be happy to know there are so many other options. Look, we live in a world where, for better or worse, we don't force publishers to publish anything they don't want to. Youtube telling Nazis to go jump in a lake is no different than your local paper declining to run an editorial from one. It just seems different because the scope is so much bigger.

[jonathankoren]

Exactly. You have a freedom to speak. You don't have a freedom to use someone else's forum to gain an audience. No more than I have a right to walk into your house and do whatever I want.

[tracker1]

Funny, I seem to recall all sorts of instances where the government has forced people and businesses to cater to those that they don't want to... Hell, Title IX is based on the premise of providing equal access by protected classes.

And for reference, political party is a protected class in DC, and that could extend to other areas. Politicians aren't allowed to block people on Twitter or Facebook, it's only a matter of time before the companies themselves aren't allowed to in many conditions.

There's also the concept of a public space in private ownership to consider. There's a big difference between your living room and a restaurant or park.

[jonathankoren]

None of this is relevant. None of these protected classes are applicable here. Nothing has ever been about compelled speech or compelled publication.

If you really believe where you’re argument is going, I demand you give me your twitter account to use, so I can tweet whatever I want. If you don’t do that, you’re censoring me, and I guess I should sue you or something.

I’m not hard find online. I’ll be waiting for your DM.

[tracker1]

At one point, protected classes weren't... then they were... The government cannot restrict your access, but they can force companies to expand it to be more equal.

[jonathankoren]

You’re still not making a good argument that a publisher refusing to publish a submission is censorship.

I’m also still waiting for that DM. Why are you censoring me?

[tracker1]

I'll give you my passwords when you give me yours. Also, I never claimed to be both a publisher and a platform.

Facebook and Twitter should not have the protections of both. Also, you never came up with a coherent argument of why political viewpoint shouldn't be a protected class across the US, as it already is in DC. Just some false narrative of associating a single account to a set of massive corporations that hold control over what equates to public discourse.