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by Jiro 1085 days ago
Every time someone complains about being kicked off of Facebook or Youtube or some other such service for political reasons, the response from just about everyone is "they're a private business, they have a right to kick you off for any reason they want to with no explanation".

How isnt that also true here? They're a private business, they have a right to kick you off by automated systems if they think it's cheaper to have a couple of errors in the automatic system than to pay for manual reviewers. Hey, they're a private business and don't have to justify themselves, right?

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Not sure if you were responding to the right comment, but yeah, this is a pretty major argument for who unchecked private centralization is very dangerous. The main solutions to this contradiction are website keeping healthy competition between firms to have a rich ecosystem of competition or to place everything in a centralized location controlled by the govt where things like access are intensely regulated (i.e why every subway and post office is ACA accessible)