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by jwestbury 942 days ago
> it’s absolutely their call to make.

Well -- maybe. There are limits on free speech, and while the current regime rests on the concept of corporations having Constitutional rights, there's certainly a robust debate as to whether or not that's a reasonable approach.

(I admit, the challenge here is finding a reasonable line to regulate.)

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It's the least bad approach by far -- the alternative would be the government telling social media companies that they had to publish materials, including some that they had religious and moral objections to -- which is obviously unconstitutional. Could you imagine a world in which inflammatory but legal posts had to be carried? Advocating for late-term abortions on Christian Mingle or calling for a Holocaust on a Jewish social media site?