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Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by CaptNemo2012
This comes from a misunderstanding of Free Speech. Twitter is a privately owned entity - IE anyone using their service has agreed to their terms and conditions.
Let me rephrase that... by joining Twitter you agreed to their rules. When you violated those rules you were not censored... you simply violated the contract.
We spend so much time fixated on "rights" these days that we've lost sight of personal responsibility.
Originally posted by AkumaStreak
I don't think it's that simple. So free speech then, but only on public property?
I think OP has a point. We already cried for the OP though, being people who were adults in the 90s.
So OP, what will you do about it?
Originally posted by Hefficide
Originally posted by AkumaStreak
I don't think it's that simple. So free speech then, but only on public property?
I think OP has a point. We already cried for the OP though, being people who were adults in the 90s.
So OP, what will you do about it?
Free Speech in an absolute sense has never applied to private property. If movie theater ejects a patron who will not stop talking during the film - is that infringement?
If I kick a guest out because he won't stop discussing sex or violence in front of my kids - is that infringement?
People have always had the right to dictate behavior on their property in this regard.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by CaptNemo2012
This comes from a misunderstanding of Free Speech. Twitter is a privately owned entity - IE anyone using their service has agreed to their terms and conditions.
Let me rephrase that... by joining Twitter you agreed to their rules. When you violated those rules you were not censored... you simply violated the contract.
We spend so much time fixated on "rights" these days that we've lost sight of personal responsibility.
Originally posted by Hefficide
Originally posted by AkumaStreak
I don't think it's that simple. So free speech then, but only on public property?
I think OP has a point. We already cried for the OP though, being people who were adults in the 90s.
So OP, what will you do about it?
Free Speech in an absolute sense has never applied to private property. If movie theater ejects a patron who will not stop talking during the film - is that infringement?
If I kick a guest out because he won't stop discussing sex or violence in front of my kids - is that infringement?
People have always had the right to dictate behavior on their property in this regard.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by AkumaStreak
Again - an absolutist approach IMO. There are appropriate venues for every subject. For example - If I am best man at a wedding, I am not apt to focus the subject of my toast to the couple upon politics and the NoKo situation. Just as I am not likely to discuss my newly married friends in the politics or breaking news forums here.