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That's the case for protected classes. I just think it should be expanded.

It shouldn't be that way if media companies weren't coordinating behind the scenes to ban stuff together. But given that it's happening, it's better to have more freedom.

:) Political opinions are more well-defined? At least political opinions are in realm of reality.

As an individual, when your speech is banned, it's all the same whether it's by an authoritarian government or by private companies.

That's exactly the argument for GDPR is. If an American megacorp doesn't want to respect the rights of non Americans then it shouldn't be allowed to profit at all from them. You can't just ban some and profit from the rest.

The freedom of individuals is more important than the freedom of corporations.

When the freedom of people to speak clashes with the freedom of corporations to not allow that speech, it's better to side with more speech (i.e. the side of the people).

I don't see that as a good counter example. That sort of content should be illegal anyway.

It was coordinated behind locked doors with Google and Apple which are competitors.

All companies shutting them down without so much as a hearing in court will probably lead them to build parallel societies.

AWS's response was based on its legal right to shut down every customer it is biased against. Nothing was adjudicated in court.

Free speech approved by media giants. Everything else will be blockaded.

Political opinions should be a protected class (certainly more than religious opinions).

A message on Twitter:

> Someone take this clown out NOW! #assassinatetrump utter evil this man! #DonaldTrump

I’m on Twitter and it seems like this stuff is not uncommon there and since they are a huge company it seems like it wouldn't be tough to moderate it.

I consider myself to be a proponent of free speech, but I also think you are crazy if you don’t put limits on it.

Americans sure like this bad faith argument.

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

If you're free to communicate anything on public owned spaces on the internet but there are no public owned spaces on the internet, then you're not free to communicate on the internet.

You've privatized censorship and still call yourself a free country.