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The First Amendment doesn't obligate private companies to do business with people or other businesses they don't want to be involved with. If the U.S. governme
by waterphone 8y ago
The First Amendment doesn't obligate private companies to do business with people or other businesses they don't want to be involved with.
If the U.S. government were ordering his accounts closed, you might have an argument.
- CapitalistCartr 8y agoThe ideal is bigger than that. If we only support rights for people and ideas we support, then they aren't rights. Freedom of speech is not just a constraint on our government; its an ideal that only survives if we stand up for it vigorously. Its absurd to expect our government to be a better "person" than we expect of ourselves.
- camel_Snake 8y agoDo we have a right to a business's services though? Should bars be unable to ban unruly customers? I don't see how this is very different.