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LTHN.
User ID: 44975315 Canada 01/09/2021 03:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who knows? A few years back, a cake making private business got closed down and taken to court for not making a gay cake for a couple. "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
Rev Woo-Woo
(OP) User ID: 78176490 United States 01/09/2021 03:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do they utilize publicly owned services like electricity, net backbone fiber optic cables etc to run their inter web companies though? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78860366 Who owns that? How is that different than a brick and mortar store or business website? “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 32154835 United States 01/09/2021 03:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At some point they become public utilities and must be regulated. Even private businesses can be government regulated once their impact on the public discourse becomes a monopoly similar to telephone companies. Can AT&T deny service if they don't like what your going to talk about on the telephone? |
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Rev Woo-Woo
(OP) User ID: 78176490 United States 01/09/2021 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who knows? Quoting: LTHN. A few years back, a cake making private business got closed down and taken to court for not making a gay cake for a couple. Yes This is the issue and what’s really going on. This isn’t about “free speech” or the Donald. This is a much deeper level of control. “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76769715 United States 01/09/2021 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At some point they become public utilities and must be regulated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32154835 Even private businesses can be government regulated once their impact on the public discourse becomes a monopoly similar to telephone companies. Can AT&T deny service if they don't like what your going to talk about on the telephone? |
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Rev Woo-Woo
(OP) User ID: 78176490 United States 01/09/2021 03:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good discourse, good answers GLP! “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |