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Fucking Religious Reich and this bullshit court...throw it into the fire.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this is just the status quo. businesses, especially ones operated online, can really reject you for whatever reason they want. you can go full paranoia, and feed into political extremism, or just see this is as what it is; America being at crossroads for what "freedom" really means. Is freedom the ability to shop wherever, or the freedom for business owners to reject whomever they want, no matter the petty-ness of it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's true. Moving past the emotional attempt to rile up the community by stating "throw it into the fire", it isn't clearly defined what a business can refuse business for.

If someone at a restaurant acts like a complete jerk and the business rejects providing service, is the business wrong for punishing the customer for expressing their freedom of speech? As long as that customer is not trying to incite violence, as it stands, there is no clarity on which party would be in the right.