SawMaster
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You can have no argument with someone doing as they wish with their own private property unless you think it right and proper for others to tell you what you may and may not do with your own private property. You're free to decide who you allow into your house and yard and they are free to decide who is allowed on their platforms- it's the same thing. And Alphabet and Apple are free to decide which apps are offered on their store pages, also the very same thing. In the TOU's you agreed to when you signed up to use these services, you agreed to things being this way. You can have no complaint if things are the way you agreed to them being. You were never promised anything and being private property you have no inherent rights to make claim of there- your legal rights are only applicable in public and in the confines of your own property or on the property of others who have explicitly conveyed such rights to you while you were there. If you don't agree, or cease to agree your only right is your freedom to leave that private property without undue hindrance.Those ''rules'' are selectively applied, that's the issue.
Nope, not at all; once again you don't understand the difference between what has been deemed private and public. Telephone companies, while perhaps privately owned, are publicly regulated utilities, and as such are required to respect your public rights as are given to you by law. They are not allowed to restrict your right to free speech as long as that speech would be legal in another public setting. They can not illegally discriminate against any user of their services or do that arbitrarily, and they are legally compelled to offer their services to anyone wanting to use them for legal purposes.This is more close to a private telephone company not letting you making phonecalls to your friends.
This what is so very wrong with what is being called "conservative" in America these days. They are not calling for or wanting freedom to exist- they are hiding their desires to control other equally-endowed Free Americans under that smooth-sounding and appealing moniker. They are not "Patriots" either, for the true Patriots who founded this nation clearly knew and understood that if power to control were allowed to be applied against others, then those exact same powers could be exercised against them too. Not only would they be appalled at what this 'conservative' movement stands for and is calling for, they would fight to the death to prevent it from taking hold.
You are not free if you are only free to be like others want you to be or to live as others want you to live. And in America you have the freedom to do that (public rights) right up to the point of your actions taking away from the freedom of others (private rights). You cannot cross that line without also allowing those others to do the same to you equally, and you cannot compel them to agree to those terms. If you want freedom you must give that same freedom to all others- not just some others- and if you do not, then none are truly free and that includes you.
Phil