> Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms.
Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.
Why does it go both ways? The symmetry isn’t obvious. I can kick you out of my house for whatever reason but I’m not automatically complicit if I let you visit and you pull out a rifle and shoot someone out the window when I wasn’t looking. That is right. And it should be that way.
My personal residence doesn't serve as a chosen communications venue for a significant fraction of the local populous. Network effects are real. Failing to consider them is specious.
That doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of preventing these companies from moderating things. It just concerns me to see such obvious aspects disregarded.
Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.