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Here’s what will get you blocked by AOC on Twitter (federal judge will decide)
NY Post ^ | 9/26/19 | Andrew Denney

Posted on 09/29/2019 6:58:27 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Brian Griffin

Then Twitter should never be allowed to send it’s signals over wireless frequencies licensed for use. A television or a radio station licenses its frequencies from public airwaves of the people. Internet companies do the same. They should be subject to the same rules. If a Twitter uses the internet carriers airwaves to deliver propaganda then their should be restriction on the company.


21 posted on 09/29/2019 9:22:00 PM PDT by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: Brian Griffin

Then Twitter should never be allowed to send it’s signals over wireless frequencies licensed for use. A television or a radio station licenses its frequencies from public airwaves of the people. Internet companies do the same. They should be subject to the same rules. If a Twitter uses the internet carriers airwaves to deliver propaganda then their should be restriction on the company.


22 posted on 09/29/2019 9:22:13 PM PDT by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: TomServo

No one here is an elected official. AOC is.


23 posted on 09/29/2019 10:37:26 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: GOP Congress

Hey you anti-Semitic, commie bitch. Now you’re going up against a fighting Jew and you aren’t going to like the outcome. Dov is not an ADL pansy or a J Street coward. He’s a fighter and he’s a New Yorker.

Time to buy a truckload of bandages because you are going to need them. Might have a bloodbank truck standing by just in case he get’s really serious.

AOC - One of the “Four Horses’ Asses of Marxism”


24 posted on 09/29/2019 11:35:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Beowulf9

>But I thought they made it so our President is not allowed to block anyone.

Seems to me, that ruling should have been precedent for any elected official...


25 posted on 09/29/2019 11:47:08 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: Brian Griffin
Twitter is a private company and should be able to decide how it runs it’s business.

Once again, there's the problem. They ARE a private company that seeks, and gets, special protections from the government, because they claim it is a "platform" doing nothing more than providing content; say like the phone company. They then turn around and censor that content based on the political beliefs of the people that work there, just like a "publisher" would do. Publishers are not, and should not be afforded the same government protections against liable and other things as platforms are.

In essence, Twitter, Facebook, et al are creating monopolies on political and cultural speech all with government protection. They are either platforms, or publishers; they can not be both, or the Republic will certainly (continue to) suffer for it.

26 posted on 09/30/2019 4:10:57 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: jmacusa

So what?


27 posted on 09/30/2019 11:15:52 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: TomServo

So what? None of us have the power to write laws. AOC does.


28 posted on 09/30/2019 12:39:52 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: jmacusa
So you think congress should be required to personally answer every email, phone call and letter too? Do you think they actually do that? Maybe we can pass a law so my mailbox will quit filling with junk mail, too. Seriously - I don't see what the problem is when there are already multiple outlets for voters to contact their respective legislators. Old school. If legislators ignore or it, so be it.
29 posted on 09/30/2019 2:31:04 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: TomServo
Cutie Pie doesn't answer anyone. She's deaf to her constituency, never debated anyone when she was running, calling it ''sexist''. It's clear she is a tool for the Leftists who put her where she is. She's a creation of Cent Ugar and his Young Turks and she's not supposed to stray from the script least someone realize how stupid she is.
30 posted on 09/30/2019 5:45:21 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: jmacusa

I agree completely with you. But if all a person can do is ‘tweet’ and ‘like’ and all that other crap - I don’t think they should be using the Judiciary to compel anybody to answer to them. They should probably get off their dead ass and do their own dirty work. We’ve have lost the ability to verbally communicate with each other effectively, imo. Social media sucks. It’s an outrage machine. Keyboard commandos.


31 posted on 09/30/2019 6:03:06 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: kingu
No public official is permitted to block unless the messages are advocating of violence. That is the standard the courts applied, that’s the standard that exists.

Dumb. If it's their personal account, they should be allowed to block whomever they wish. Doesn't matter what role they have or position they're in.

But, if it's a gov official account, The President or Congresswoman District 14, then they shouldn't be allowed to block any of their constituents.
32 posted on 10/01/2019 8:51:33 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

If it is NOT used for campaigning or for official messages, yes, they can block whomever they please. But it is a very tight limit; the moment the personal account is used for campaign or official business, they have to unblock those they’ve blocked or face a civil rights suit...

(’course, this is where they turn to Facebook & Twitter Jails/bans.. Nothing prevents those companies without any oversight from blocking whomever they please, even if it’s communication between a constituent and their elected official.)


33 posted on 10/01/2019 7:26:38 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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