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"This is grossly undemocratic" hahaha

Websites are not democracies. Private property isn't a democracy. Companies aren't democracies.

Get it out of your head that they are and life will go a lot smoother.

And "freedom of speech" only applies to the government, and only governments in the US. Websites that delete your comments are not limiting your freedom of speech. </pet_peeve>

They are limiting your freedom of speech; however, they are not infringing on the rights granted by the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution.

Those things aren't constitutionally, legally or inherently democracies, but it's nevertheless possible for them to be administrated in a more, or less, democratic manner.

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