Quote Originally Posted by tomaO2 View Post


If a business bills itself as a public platform, then, ipso facto, it becomes one. This was the sort of argument that made is possible for people to gather in what is technically a privately owned public space (not a public park) during Occupy Wall Street, and it should also apply to other online forums that bill themselves as public spaces (reddit and Erfworld forums would not count as such, just to be clear, but I'd have an issue if reddit took a side and said, for example, you could not make a reddit for GoT criticism).
Your business as a public platform doesn't hold water even with your initial argument. If you'll recall, when the park owner decided he had enough with the protesters, he got to give them the boot. Only public pressure kept him from pulling that trigger sooner.

Twitter is a business first and foremost. Facebook is a business first and foremost. Any censoring or lack of censoring is done purely on financial motivation, even if its simply avoiding the cost of government intervention.