eBay banning Death Metal.

Solid Snake · 09-19-2006, 05:30 PM

As a private business, eBay has the right to decide what it will and will not allow its users to buy and sell, and I can't fault them in the slightest for making this decision.

Free speech is protected by the government in the public arena. This is a private enterprise, however, so free speech laws don't exactly apply here. If eBay doesn't want to sell this crap, they're the ones who are actually losing money by choosing not to sell it, so I'm sure they rigorously evaluated each album before deciding they didn't want to make a profit from it, y'know?

I see no foul play here.

09-19-2006, 05:30 PM	#11
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	As a private business, eBay has the right to decide what it will and will not allow its users to buy and sell, and I can't fault them in the slightest for making this decision. Free speech is protected by the government in the public arena. This is a private enterprise, however, so free speech laws don't exactly apply here. If eBay doesn't want to sell this crap, they're the ones who are actually losing money by choosing not to sell it, so I'm sure they rigorously evaluated each album before deciding they didn't want to make a profit from it, y'know? I see no foul play here. __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.