[Garth Tater]

"My positions is that if you are in the communications business, you must be forced by law to serve every customer that sits at your lunch table

So Mr. Robinson can't ban anyone he chooses? Once you carve out an exemption for Jim's site they will buy themselves a bigger, better set of exemptions for themselves - along with all sorts of new rules to go along with the exemptions. Rules that they won't have to follow, but Jim will

They are masters of the game, and they have all the money to play it. It's better to just stick with the basics, like keeping our freedom to associate or not associate with whoever we please -- well okay, how about we try to keep what's left of that freedom?

This banning frenzy we are seeing might actually be a good thing for us. The more they reveal of themselves the more people they drive away - people that are the natural customers of free and freedom loving solutions that will be popping up to serve them.

[DiogenesLamp]

So Mr. Robinson can't ban anyone he chooses?

You just skipped right over that part where I said that communications companies of a certain size must be obligated to serve everyone.

Free Republic is too small to represent a threat to the nation. Trillion dollar corporations like YouTube and Facebook are not.