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>What aspect of “private company” do you not understand?

The part where they're given more power than we give the government.

So… you want the government to interfere with the operation of private companies so they are forced to give a platform to people they don’t want to do business with…

Last I checked, political beliefs are not a protected class.

I want the government to interfere with the operation of _specific_ private companies so they're forced to give a platform to everyone because of the sheer amount of traffic and eyeballs they get every single second of every single day. Facebook, Google, and Twitter come to mind first.

IMO they can't be trusted with having more power than the government. They have way too much control over what people consume on the internet.

Yes because the government would never do something like pass laws to punish a corporation because they spoke out against a policy - see Florida vs Disney.

The last thing I want is to give the government more power.

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