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   -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Charles Pierson <=-   
      
    AT> I agree - private companies should be able to do what they want - even   
    AT> censor people   
      
   But those companies   
   1) are public companies - so their shareholders will have plenty to say   
   2) claim to be "platforms" for discussion and have legal protection under   
   Section 230 so that they can't be sued for what other people say.  But they   
   act like publishers and police their content.   
      
    AT> Trump's mistake is he should have just used his own website. That would   
    AT> have been simple, reliable, and almost completely uncensorable.   
      
   I think that's becoming obvious to many companies right now.  They cannot   
   rely on other platforms.  How many companies right now are actively thinking   
   about leaving AWS because of what happened with Parler?   
      
      
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