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If I reword my reply to:

"There has never been a reasonable expectation that private businesses are or should be required to allow all speech. Doing so prevents the business from exercising their own freedom of speech protections."

it still holds. Freedom of speech does not mean that a company should be compelled or required to host speech it disagrees with.




Correct, yet for a particular category of companies providing foundation utility-like services, there's a well established tradition of taking a liberal/neutral stance.

Which above all is a pragmatic call.


You can go much further: freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech.

Glad we both agree on the importance of free speech.




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