Within 1 hour, Reddit banned 2000 subs-almost all right wing, Twitch banned Trump's account, Youtube banned Stefan Molyneux, Twitter banned Sidney Powell, and the MSM all had long ass articles ready to go to praise it. THIS IS ELECTION MEDDLING. Contact your state reps and demand something be done.

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[–]onemoredaydream 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES ARE NOT PUBLIC UTILITIES.

You can whine about getting banned all you like... but no company is forced to host speech it disagrees with.

I say this as a feminist whose favorite communities got banned from reddit. If they don't like them, they don't have to host them.

You're on this site right now, still speaking your mind. That's because your IP doesnt monitor your speech and restrict your access based on some sort of citizen score.

Support open source, support free speech, but media companies are not under any obligation to provide you a free platform.

[–]AllStr8SexIsRape 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

OK fascist. Then Saidit should ban you for defending corporate censorship. If you don't support free speech, then you deserve censorship and will get censorship to preserve free speech privileges for the minority of people who have actually earned them.

[–]thoughter_ 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

(This comment is 24 days ago but I just got here so forgive the month-later reply) I support free speech but reddit has the right to ban anyone it likes in the same way any restaurant has the right to refuse service. I think it's a completely immoral, dick-ish, manipulating, straight-up evil thing to do - and completely ruins any goodwill I had for reddit - but the fact remains that we can't DO anything to reddit because they have the right to censor anybody they disagree with.

Reddit is not a public utility, and censoring someone, however immoral, is not illegal. Moving against reddit by "contacting state reps to do something about it" is advocating for the government to meddle with and to tell someone what to do with what they own (no matter how virtual that may be). Now, if you disagree with me and you agree that the government should do that, that's okay, but if you agree with the point that the government doesn't have the right to tell you what to do with what you own, then your argument should be wrong.