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Originally Posted by kane
There are a couple of big differences. First, I would be paying for ATT's service whereas Twitter is free. Second, my phone call between me and a friend (or whoever I am talking to) is a private phone conversation whereas Twitter is used to broadcast to a large audience.
If a phone company said they were listening to my private phone conversations and didn't like my political positions or my positions or race or any other issue and they were cutting me off, I would think that is wrong. If I used my phone to call into a live radio show and then went off on a racist rant that was broadcast on the air and ATT decided, upon hearing my rant, that they no longer wanted me as a customer, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
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I'm not sure fact that it's free is relevant... but I'll play along with that logic... so lets say google, mozilla, microsoft, and few other companies decided that they don't agree with certain political sites' viewpoints, and blocked them in their free browsers...
it's their product, the product is free, so it's their rules... nothing at all would be wrong with censoring sites like that? if you do think something would be wrong, why does twitter have the right to censor, but for example microsoft in their IE software does not?