Should information be controlled by a few companies; should governments cut off the influence of companies and services from outside their borders; has facebook gone too far when evidence shows it involved in events that led to genocide? The Techlead takes a look.
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I stand by what I have said elsewhere:
MARSH v. STATE OF ALABAMA.
“Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.”
“Had the corporation here owned the segment of the four-lane highway which runs parallel to the ‘business block’ and operated the same under a State franchise, doubtless no one would have seriously contended that the corporation’s property interest in the highway gave it power to obstruct through traffic or to discriminate against interstate commerce.”
“Just as all other citizens they must make decisions which affect the welfare of community and nation. To act as good citizens they must be informed. In order to enable them to be properly informed their information must be uncensored. There is no more reason for depriving these people of the liberties guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments than there is for curtailing these freedoms with respect to any other citizen.”
To me, that says that Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google and Amazon have violated the Constitutional rights of millions of people. Personally I think that not only should they be banned, they should be considered as fomenting sedition, and should have all US assets seized.