Yes, it is their business. If people don't like that and advertisers, etc don't like that then don't use it or advertise there. The market will determine if it's viable or not. The state has no business policing that.
Which makes total sense because you can't run a social network using this principle.
You sir have hit the nail on the head!
We know X is moderating content (so much for "free speech", but that's another issue). What we don't know is on what basis the content is being moderated, what's being moderated, and so forth.
In other words, Elon Musk is flat-out lying when he calls X a "free speech" platform. It is not - and that's not necessarily a bad thing. What is bad is hiding your moderation policies. That's what this law addresses.
Moderation is okay so long as it's done in the open. Everyone is talking about California taking away free speech, what they're really doing is preserving free speech by forcing companies to disclose when speech was moderated. That is serving the public good.
The Enlightenment - free speech and liberty. They are a speech platform and should not be infringed on upon by the government. The people, ergo the market, will determine if they are viable through popular opinion. If they are as vile and off-putting as some people say then people won't use it and they'll either moderate in a way that makes them viable or die.
I mean which way is it? I hear that they are toxic and no one uses it and no one will advertise on it on one hand and on the other hand I hear that it needs to publish their moderation policies and they should not allow speech that certain people don't like.
You keep getting downvoted because the rest of us kinda watched the internet happen for the past 20 years. Where were you?
And just because a comment is downvoted here doesn’t mean it’s bad or wrong. In fact look at all the engagement it has created. Clearly there is a conversation to be had. Trying to dismiss it with quips like yours probably feel good to type but are meaningless.
By your comments you belong to a class of people that feels entitled to things you never earned or contributed to and would like an authoritarian government to steal it. This is the worst kind of person. Far worse than a fascist.
I don't feel entitled to anything, but I do think you get what you pay for. And America has been paying for a shitty government and has a shitty government with no serious hope of fighting off the endlessly metastasizing corporate ticks that are constantly rent-seeking, penning us in to less and less choice, and then gaslighting the most gullible into thinking that it's the "free market" or whatever.
But yeah, keep thinking about people who want a functioning society as "looters" or whatever. We just want people to pay their taxes, especially rich people who can frickin afford it.
America isn’t perfect but it’s pretty good overall. The government is made up of the people. Complaining about it like it’s the cable company not delivering good enough service is ridiculous. Get in there and make the change you want to see. Get involved.
I’m not Randian but I do agree that it’s problematic how some people believe they’re entitled to the property of others. That they should be included because they exist and support policy that confiscates, mainly out if greed and envy.
It’s mainly people that think they should be amongst the elite and they aren’t. Which to them is proof the country is bad.
I do wonder where you got that impression about vile practices leading to poor market performance however. That doesn't gel with.. anything, really.
"We do/do not moderate Q" is advertising when it comes to public platforms, and they should be forced to abide by their advertising.