We live in an internet world. It’s impossible for a “monopoly of speech” to exist.
Smyrna
August 10, 2018, 9:00am
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reflechissez:
Poor analogy. The baker already bakes wedding cakes and discriminated against who could purchase them. Youtube is a marketplace that chooses which products to carry, not whom to sell them to. I’m sure there are companies that want Walmart to carry their products but Walmart is under no obligation to do so.
The baker makes wedding cakes that are a result of their religious beliefs celebrating a sacred bond between a man and a woman. Now he/she is being asked to alter their beliefs and make a cake that does not support their religion and goes against their convictions. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Youtube or the baker…if you’re doing business in the public domain and what is being asked of the professional or said on their provided platform is not illegal, if one is forced to still provide their services, all should be forced or…get out of the business.
Samm
August 10, 2018, 9:49am
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reflechissez:
Right wingers are easy.
Are you calling Bill Clinton a right winger?
Jezcoe
August 10, 2018, 11:58am
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Grimalken:
reflechissez:
Poor analogy. The baker already bakes wedding cakes and discriminated against who could purchase them. Youtube is a marketplace that chooses which products to carry, not whom to sell them to. I’m sure there are companies that want Walmart to carry their products but Walmart is under no obligation to do so.
Why is it a poor analogy? Both the baker and Facebook deal with customers who want to use their service to express themselves. Neither the baker, or Facebook wanted to be seen as endorsing, associating with, promoting, contributing to, or assisting those types of customers. so they refused to do business with them.
As to my personal feelings on the whole baker issue. I thought the baker had little to no standing to refuse to bake that wedding cake. Weddings don’t require a cake, and the couple would have already been married before the cake was even carved.
The problem i see, is that is seems Facebook and YouTube can deny the business of customers because they don’t like their views, and on that basis don’t wish to be associated with them, but the baker has no such choice.
You aren’t the customer of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter et al… you are the product.
Good point. YouTube is trying to figure out a revenue generating angle, and they still haven’t resolved the issue of copyright protections
…and yet, some of those companies make billions of dollars because people are using their product.
