So Infowars was banned from YouTube, Spotify, Facebook, and Apple. Personally, I say good riddance. If you're against anti-discrimination laws then I don't have an issue with you not getting to benefit from these laws.
It's just like what I said after Twitter shadowbanned conservatives. Although, funnily enough, Twitter didn't ban Jones. If you don't want bakers to be forced to serve gay people cakes, no one should be forced to put you on my social media platform.
This is where the right responds that "These platforms have a monopoly", this is untrue. Competition exists for all these platforms, big names are just too lazy to use it. Don't like YouTube? Go on Dailymotion, Vimeo, Vidilli, Veoh, and so on. Don't like Twitter? Go on Gab or All4Truth. And these are all just off the top of my head.
The fact is these companies are following the first amendment. As they are not making any laws obstructing freedom of speech. They are only enforcing the rules they, as a private company, have set up.
Plus, this idea of a "digital Bill of Rights" which people like Paul Joseph Watson are endorsing is the dumbest idea of all time. You know what happens when companies are forced to advertise on things that hurt there image? They stop advertising on the internet and go back to Television. Basically, you're putting every internet service behind a paywall.
So what's the moral here? Follow the rules of the websites you use. It isn't hard.
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