[semimojo]

Only if they carry other traffic for free. If they charge other people, they can charge everyone. What they cannot be allowed to do is get huge numbers of communication traffic, and then control what that traffic is.

Now you're back to saying Jim can't ban people.

You try to hide behind "huge numbers" but that's just a convenient dodge because your basic premise is so preposterous.

In the authoritarian world you advocate government will define 'huge' and you won't have any say - or property rights.

[DiogenesLamp]

Now you're back to saying Jim can't ban people.

Notice the qualifier "huge numbers of communication traffic" in my post. If you are small fry, you can do what you want, but when your attempts to censor affect millions, then you need to be forced to carry all traffic.

As regrettable as it is, Free Republic is small fry in the larger scheme of things. I wish it weren't, but it is.

You try to hide behind "huge numbers" but that's just a convenient dodge because your basic premise is so preposterous.

My basic premise is that censorship of speech is just as great of a threat coming from the "private" sector as it is coming from government. We cannot allow it on any large scale.

In the authoritarian world you advocate government will define 'huge' and you won't have any say - or property rights.

Forcing everyone to allow freedom of speech is "authoritarian"? I begin to think you do not understand the word.