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> These companies can ban the US President from their platforms.

Good, you should be able to choose who you do business with, or at least that’s what conservatives argued for years.

Pretty sure “the free market” has decided that Parler and Truth Social are terrible social media products based on their relative lack of adoption

that isn't facebook's problems that they regular folks don't want to join a bunch of fascist platforms. No one is -owed- an audience of a billion people. I don't think the -means- of those shoudl be blocked. ISP, cloudfront, AWS, etc shouldn't be able to block such orgs (as long as they aren't doing anything illegal) as they are providing a source that means the internet does fall apart because they are providing the most basic of what makes up the web/internet and it's easy to argue that they should be able to pick and choose like a facebook/amazon/twitter/etc, who provide something that isn't a commodity.

Free market did enormous amount of terrible, short sighted choices. I am living in a (moderately) free market country, which isn't USA and government moderation is a never ending war with evolution of ways to circumvent regulations. These are only in place to try to keep food products from harming people eating them. I use food as an obvious example, but it applies to all branches of economy - electronics, insurance policies, gambling, clothing, meat, produce, etc. All in pursuit of profit over humanitarian needs. Always trying to evade detection by means of misdirection, "accidental" omission; surely even bribery.

Give it a few.

It's only a matter of time until the Leftist tech platforms ban a critical amount of content producers and make themselves irrelevant. After all, each creator you ban represents a multiple of monetizable viewers that you just partially or totally told "don't come to my site".

Take Rumble for example. It still has a substantial amount of gristle, but a growing amount of mainstream content. It is also now a publicly listed company undergoing hockey stick growth at a time when most companies are not.

I don't think there are any "leftist" social media platform. Maybe explicitly leftist subreddits if that counts? But overall, there are normal people platforms and right wing propaganda platforms. Is this the effect where anything left of fox news is "communism"?

I hadn't heard of Rumble until now. But I'm just seeing some putin defense, covid conspiracy, and joe biden is a terrorist videos. And the UX is early 2010's.

Welcome to 2010 YouTube were adults can decide what information they want to consume.

Adults most vulnerable to right wing propaganda, the demographic famous for making good decisions for themselves and those around them.

Social networking space is not a true market due to the fact common users are not buyers or sellers in them.

Not exactly. You can't deny baking someone a carrot cake because they are gay for example. But you can deny baking them a cake that represents a gay celebration, for example asking to have two male figured on top, or delivering it to a gay wedding.

I don't think you should be able to ban someone because you don't like them. If it's the case that you should, why doesn't Facebook scrape off and ban known sexual offenders list? Criminals? Should someone that beat their exwife in 1987 really be on Facebook, let alone be able to look up his victim?

I personally think people should be allowed on unless they break the actual rules of the platform on the platform.

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