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A private entity ceases to be private when they gain significant and durable market power. The long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. Legally that is called a monopoly. Microsoft is a good example. They limited their platform by making it difficult to run other browsers. Now we have social media like Twitter banning words from certain people they don't like and censoring content based on political views or their on interpretation of 'hate speech.'How can a private entity be unjust in regards to what it wants/permits on its platform? Have the laws of private property been held in abeyance?
Parler (alternative to Twitter) was supported when Google, Apple and Amazon refused to have Parler use their servers. Seems like an illegal monopoly to me.
I acknowledge that the issue is a bit complicated- we don't want hate speech to incite people to violence. Trump's involvement in the Capitol Riots straddled that line in my view. But then there are also a lot of doctors and others who are censored simply because they don't agree with the party line regarding Covid 19 and vaccines (Covid or otherwise). That, in my view, is very bad.