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  • App Store terms probably won't stop X from turning off the block feature

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    davidw said: That's the function of "mute". That is still available. A user can "mute" another user and not ever have to see any of their comments. That's your  right to "freedom of association". However, when a user "block" another user, that is preventing other users from exercising their "freedom of association". Even if the other users completely agree with you that the comments of the user you blocked, are BS, they might have a better understanding of the "spirit of the law" we here in the US refer to ....... as our 1st Amendment rights. 
    1st Amendment rights have ZERO RELEVANCE TO PRIVATELY OWNED SERVICES. Elon Musk can ban, censor or encourage whatever speech he wants BECAUSE ELON MUSK HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYONE'S RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 1st Amendment rights are specific to government actions because that's where your freedoms actually come from: the government, not the private sector. 

    Anyone who thinks Elon Musk is protecting their freedom of speech or 1st Amendment rights with his actions on a social media app is completely mistaken. 
    This isn’t exactly true or as clear cut as people make it out.  See Marsh V Alabama.  But the basic idea is that the more a private business acts as part of the public infrastructure the more the constitutional restrictions apply to them.  

    And we already intuitively know this.

    would we allow phone providers (private companies) to deny service to people for any arbitrary reason?  I.e people who may support a law regulating phone companies?

    what about internet providers,  they catch you supporting Net Neutrality laws,  and now you can’t use the internet?

    What about privately operated bridges?  Can they deny you access because you have a Biden 2024 sticker?


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