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I agree with this 100%, but also want to temper this with "this is nothing new".

Your hosting/cloud was always willing to drop your ass the moment you made bad PR for them.

This is one of many reasons I think going full lock-in on a proprietary cloud service that you can't ever self-host or migrate to a different cloud in a more favorable jurisdiction is crazy for a business that needs continuity.

Who knows which way the wind blows in a quarter or a year or a decade?

Take it from the porn industry: you have to be prepared to host it yourself one day.

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> Who knows which way the wind blows in a quarter or a year or a decade?

Let's hope the wind is always blowing against trying to violently overthrow a government after a free and fair election in the United States of America.

I think the new part is that they have started to censor anyone that is even vaguely conservative. Even open critics of Trump like Ron Paul, and now RNC.

The end game is obviously that anyone that is not a woke liberal will be cancelled. For the good of the country of course.

False. The RNC is not an open critic of the leader of their party.

Ron Paul previously had thoughts on private businesses and discrimination you might want to read. https://mises.org/wire/government-should-leave-bakers-alone

> Rights are not gifts from government, so the government cannot restrict them unless we engage in force or fraud. The bakery did not use force to stop any same-sex couple from getting a wedding cake. It simply exercised its right to decide who it would accept as a customer. No one would support private individuals forcing bakery employees to bake a cake at gunpoint, so why is it right for the government to do it?

Do you think that is why they banned him?

No, I think it's funny for Ron Paul to be complaining Facebook did the exact thing he said businesses should be able to do.

I don’t care about his feelings, hypocritical or not.

I’m alarmed when they start censoring people without even pretending they’re remotely dangerous. He simply has the wrong politics and is too popular.

This isn’t censorship. If the US wants a free and public Twitter like platform, they can spin up their own instance of Mastodon or write their own.

Of course it’s censorship, it just isn’t carried out by the state. But when private companies have more control over media, private censorship is just as bad.

You have no one but the politicians to blame for handing over infrastructures over to private companies and yourself for allowing them to be voted in.

He's not complaining Facebook did exactly what he championed they had a right to do. The complaint is that they could not point out how he had breached terms of service/community guidelines as he was notified his account was terminated because of. If they could poiint to the offending material that would be one thing. If they gave advanced warning and said "Pack your stuff, we're done serving you. Period. You have X hours." It would have been fine.

Saying someone did X, Y, and Z, then refusing to produce evidence is the problem there.

Having the right to take an action is different from executing on that action.

You have the right to paint your house polka dot pink but everyone is still going to think it was the wrong choice.

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