If a platform cannot be convinced to change, and no one is willing to buy it to get it to change, then it will keep on doing what it’s doing, despite being wrong.

And yet, you demand that a platform stop being “wrong” by saying it has an obligation⁠—moral and ethical, if not legal⁠—to host all legal speech (i.e., that it should host all speech).

No one can be forced to speak against their will, or host opinions against their will, as the Supreme Court should not have needed to tell us in 303 Creative.

Y’know, it’s kind of funny that you bring that case (and that conclusion) up, because it flies in the face of your “PlAtFoRmS sHoUlD hOsT aLl LeGaL sPeEcH!!!1!” bullshit. Also funny: She won the case, but I guarantee she’ll never put up a warning on her site about how she’ll refuse to work with gay customers on wedding sites, just like every other business in every state where discrimination against gay people in public accomodations is legal will also never own it like that. Y’all want the government to protect your bigotry, but y’all don’t want to own it because you know owning it out loud (i.e., putting up a “no gays allowed” sign) will wreck everything.

Whether something is a bad choice is a matter for individual critics to decide.

Thank you, Ted, that was the point.

This is a purely internal question

And the way you frame it makes it sound like any U.S.-based platform that chooses not to welcome bigoted speech for the sake of its entire fucking userbase shouldn’t exist without being labelled “anti-American”. Hyman Rosen, are you really going to say, out loud and on the record for the whole goddamn world to read, that you believe ALL U.S.-BASED INTERACTIVE WEB SERVICES, regardless of the wishes of their owners, must host bigoted speech⁠—including but not limited to anti-queer slurs, racial slurs, and pro-Klan/pro-Nazi propaganda outside of an educational context⁠—to avoid that label and the (possibly violent) consequences thereof?

No one should be “tortured against their will”.

And yet…

As with every other situation involving children, parents and guardians must make those decisions for their charges.

…you openly support “conversion ‘therapy’ ” despite knowing how numerous parents have inflicted that violent and anti-queer “treatment” upon their queer children even (and especially!) if those children didn’t want to participate in it.

All psychology and psychiatry is snake-oil, not science.

Numerous major medical associations around the world have given approval to gender-affirming therapy for trans people. No major medical association worth a good god’s damn has done the same for “conversion ‘therapy’ ” because no such association has ever found it to be anything more than ineffective anti-queer torture that parades itself around as an innocent form of “therapy”. If anything is snake oil here, Hyman, it’s the (often overtly religious) “therapy” designed only and specifically to rid the world of queer people.

Diseases come and go according to the spirit of the times, not through science.

Being queer isn’t a disease, Hyman⁠—no matter how much you might wish it were so you could justify quarantines, torture, and possibly even state-sponsored euthanasia for whom you would probably call “the sick and uncurable”.

People who live under a system where they are not compelled to silence about their beliefs.

You live in that system. If you’re not willing to be open about your beliefs because you might get popped in the mouth for saying what you really think about trans people around cis people, that’s your fuckin’ problem, son.

no matter how sincere your beliefs, no one else is required to affirm them or act as if they are true

And yet, you keep demanding that the entire world conform to your fifth grade understanding of biology and gender by way of demanding that society find a way to legally force trans people into using public restrooms that match their biological sex (regardless of whether that results in humiliation/violence against anyone of any gender).

You don’t like other people’s opinions, too bad.

You don’t like trans people existing in public, too fucking bad⁠—queer people will outlive every attempt you and your fascist brethren make to destroy queer people. To destroy us. To destroy me.

You come for the throats of trans people and you come for mine because your fascist allies will not ever stop at trans people. They will come for every queer person⁠—gay, bi, pan, poly, asexual⁠—and they’re already setting the stage for it. You think Obergefell is settled law? It isn’t to a Supreme Court that overturned fifty years of precedent to destroy abortion rights and just gave license to religious-based anti-queer discrimination. And if you think same-sex marriage is where they’ll stop, I’d like to remind you that until Lawrence v. Texas⁠—a mere twenty years ago!⁠—laws that banned gay people from having sex even in their own homes behind closed doors were considered constitutional. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us, Hyman. That’s why I take your bullshit so seriously: You keep attacking trans people with the same kind of “they’re all groomers and pedos” bullshit that American fascists will gladly turn back on queer people in general (including conservative queers like the Log Cabin Republicans) once trans people are taken care of. If you attack trans people, you’re setting the stage for attacks on queer people like me.

Bring your knives, bring your guns, bring your hate, and bring your children to watch the slaughter⁠—but don’t expect queer people to go down without a fuckin’ bloody fight. The first Pride was a riot; we’ll make damn sure that if we must face a last Pride, we’ll go out the same fucking way.

You want the heads of trans people? You want the heads of queer people? You want my head in particular? Come and claim them if you dare.