| >That should absolutely not apply to Discord, Google Mail, or Amazon AWS, because those are all private companies restricting the use of their private property. That's not some law of physics. Just a man made law that game them those "use of their private proverty" rights (or rather, rich and powerful people lobbied and bought legislation, and got them for themselves). We can take them back. And we can also stop treating them as legal "persons" while we're at it. >You may call them "public spaces" or "public services" but that is an abuse of the word "public". Public in the legal sense is just what we deem public in the legal sense. As for public in the dictionary sense, that's irrelevant here. Besides, after offering a service used by millions, that's basically a public service (I mean in the dictionary sense: directed at a mass public) - and even legal scholars have argued that they function as a kind of public utility (and could/should be regulated as such). If we're to take it even further, then it's also a historical fact that all countries, including the USA, have nationalized companies (made some private companies public the same way public libraries are, either entirely or in part - e.g. having the state be shareholders of large part of them). So it's not like it's some unprecedent thing. https://thenextsystem.org/history-of-nationalization-in-the-.... |