WVTechie
1 min readFeb 24, 2022

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"Again, a corporation dictating what will be censored and removed from the media?" The operative word in this sentence is "corporation". Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are not public spaces and they are not owned by the government. They are properties of corporations.

If I own a restaurant or a bar or a store, I have the right to refuse service to anyone who makes statements I don't like. I have the right to have them forcefully removed from the premises if they don't leave when I tell them to. I can refuse service to anyone who makes statements supporting Trump, and I can refuse service to anyone who opposes Trump. It is my right because it is my privately owned business.

The owners of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have exactly the same right. If you don't like the decisions they make, then create competing businesses which make different decisions. Let people decide which businesses they perfer. It's called capitalism.

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