arthur lecuyer
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

There is. Its called collusion and it is illegal to use collusion to set prices or to constrain competition. there is something known as a consumer bill of rights that leftist have been attempting to promulgate against businesses for decades and definitely now should be used to protect the rights of free speech.

Businesses are now acting in coordination to withhold their services to their own clientele. The sole reason for each of those businesses is to provide a service. The fact that they acted in unison is a direct violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Perhaps you have heard of it. It is the entire rational used to protect Amazons virtual monopoly in e-books, by charging Apple (a would be competitor) and the book publishers with collusion in price fixing.

Now you might think that this doesn’t apply, because there is no price-fixing, but denial of providing the very service you supply is a restraint of trade, no different than price fixing. The fact that they acted as one is their undoing. That these are private companies disregards the fact that they have each agreed to provide a platform for the very service they now collectively seek to disavow. I see a class action lawsuit in the making. Not by Alex Jones but by the very people this effects. The users of Facebook, You Tube, Apple Podcasts, exc. Why should they be denied that voice which they endorsed by becoming followers, by the very platform which initially exposed them to it? Particularly when it crosses the entire spectrum of social media.

Collective denial of service and restraint of trade. antitrust at its finest.

    arthur lecuyer

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    A 50 something libertarian autodidact, teaching himself economics. Particularly those of the Classical and Austrian variety.