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Again, I think you are being completely absurd.

If you sell me a phone, and then deny me the right to use it as phone, then you are breaking the law. At least where I live. I would be able to demand a refund, and the Company could be penalized for lying about what they sell.

You are being absurd.

Also, private businesses should always be able to enforce their rules on their platform/property, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes like ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc.

Otherwise you could just shit on the floor of a restaurant, and they could do nothing about it.

Again, you are being absurd.




> Also, private businesses should always be able to enforce their rules on their platform/property, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes like ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc.

> Otherwise you could just shit on the floor of a restaurant, and they could do nothing about it.

While they both fall under the broad umbrella of 'ownership', I find it deeply misleading to equate Twitter, Inc.'s ownership of the URL twitter.com/XxxBloodNinjaXxx to your fellow citizen John Q. Smalltownrestauranteur's ownership of a floor that he personally cleans with a mop every evening.

They are two form of ownership that have very little in common, and naïvely treating the owners as if they were equals and had the same power leads to poor policy.




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