On Wednesday, Social Media giants Facebook and Twitter were dragged before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both heads were left rather speechless and Sen. Ted Cruz's questioning. The question was whether or not a quote by Mother Teresa on abortion was hate speech. The question was asked by Sen. Cruz because a multitude of Pro-Life groups on both Facebook and Twitter have been banned due to "hate speech" and one of these groups were banned due after they tweeted Mother Teresa's quote on abortion being anti-women. It should also be noted that the pro-life movie, Unplanned had their official Twitter and Facebook accounts deleted. All in all it does seem contradictory to deem those Pro-life and their message to be hated speech but to left those on the other side of the aisle do as they please. Now of course the problem isn't that a company is banning people. We live in a free market society and companies can do as they please. The problem is that this banning looks to be like political discrimination but more importantly both companies consider themselves "neutral" meaning they don't take sides in these sorta political exchanges. Yet their practice doesn't seem to be at all "neutral". All in all if we are considering Mother Teresa hate speech, I think it's safe to say our civilization and nation are over. -Jared Zimmerman
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