Banning tRump from Twitter is not like a bakery refusing a gay wedding cake.

A bar cuts off serving a drunk patron because the drunk can go outside and die in a ditch.

A bar doesn't provide a vital service. I ignore drunks and other belligerents.

I used that analogy in a different thread. Going and drinking at a specific bar is not a first amendment right. That bar owner can throw you out on your ass if you start instigating fights. People, including many GOP politicians, are behaving as though the right to post on a privately-owned social media site is protected in the Constitution.

[quote] Going and drinking at a specific bar is not a first amendment right.

Yes, demanding that a bakery bake stuff is not a first amendment right.

And, demanding that an free-enterprise internet platform provide space is also not a first amendment right.

Tweeting is not a first amendment right.

Have you actually read the first amendment?

That’s right.

Slander, libel and inciting riots are NOT protected, free speech in America.

No, but we're all enjoying seeing a corporation exercising its firmly-held beliefs. This was the Republican's choice. I'm glad they have to live with the policies that they create, just like the rest of us.

Though I believe it was well intentioned by many sharing the "gay wedding cake" analogy, it's also frustrating because it's missing the point. A person doesn't choose to be LGBTQ. Religion and bigotry are choices. Race isn't a choice, being a racist is.

These services all have terms and conditions with regards to the uses of them. The MAGAt's agreed to these rules when they signed up, then exploited and violated them. They got banned for it as a result. It's that simple.

[quote] Religion and bigotry are choices

There no choice if you live in Baghdad and adjacent places

That bakery case has always bothered me. On the one hand, I get it. On the other hand, why would you want to give them ANY income? Let alone have them forced by law to make cakes for people they hate?

I agree, R9, I'm bothered by that case, too. You can't force people to change their emotional prejudices. I'd just take my business somewhere else and tell everyone else to.

As for DUMP, Twitter is a private company. He has no right to tweet if they don't want his seditious, insane fat ass.