If Twitter/FB/Insta are within their rights to ban The Big Orange, based on them being private entities...
..then in case of a conflict of beliefs - can you justify a private utility company cutting someone's power? a private RE/Property Management firm denying someone a roof over their heads? CVS denying an individual their insulin? Serious question.
Twitter/FB/Insta are not public utilities. And fun fact, your ISP is also not a public utility. Thank your free market Republican representatives for that. Try harder
"Twitter/FB/Insta are not public utilities" - where in my question did I state that - strawman 101 ?? "your ISP is also not a public utility" - and the sky is blue .. so? Try harder to read the question, dear empty suit
I believe the notion for private businesses are "You can do whatever you want unless it breaks the law, discriminate against sex, race, religion, etc". So technically, yes but some companies like Florida Power and Light have partnerships with the state and probably have on a contract that they can't do that.
So they can in fact do as posited. Chase bank (fully private) last year denied banking service to some right wing figures last year based on their politics, so this question is within the realm of reality.
And Porn stars! Which made me sad :(
Discrimination is against protected groups (as defined by federal and state law) is illegal. Discrimination against other groups is allowed. Right now, theses groups are discriminating against those who incites violence, which is perfectly legal.
Last two days I’ve seen so many posts on whether public companies can ban people on their platform. The answer is overwhelming yes. And that’s correct. It feels wrong to you is because of the monopoly effect. All these companies alone or together form a monopoly. This is almost the same reason Europe is against monopolies all the time. I’ll be happy if right wingers now understands the power of monopoly and start working on limiting their power of monopolies. Check out the proposals laid out by Liz Warren, the Democratic presidential candidate.
Remember when Republicans blocked Net Neutrality and Trump drained the swamp by putting a cable company stooge in charge of the FCC? It’s good to see Republicans finally coming around on Net Neutrality and regulating tech companies, monopolies, and other businesses hopefully. Maybe they’ll awaken to the fact that unfettered capitalism is at the root of a lot of their grievances. Someone how doubt it, judging by how easily they’ve been duped.
I hope at least some Republicans will now identify the dangers.
Utility company's aren't private. They are semi public and have clear guidelines on when they refuse service. Proptery managers deny people hosting all the time (I do this hundreds of times a year). CVS can refuse service. Where your whataboutism falls apart is the economic incentive is to be inclusive and serve as many people as possible. Twitter wants the president on their platform, they just cannot also violate their own terms.
Because there are laws against that. But there are no laws against what Twitter did (not yet, at least).
Reference? And please don't quote race/sexual orientation laws as they are well know State laws are notoriously vague on the political beliefs topic,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility#United_States