PING!
Posted on 05/20/2021 8:35:32 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A defamation lawsuit against social media giant Twitter is accusing the company of unevenly enforcing its internal censorship policies depending on the political slant of the content in question.
The lawsuit was filed by Colorado resident John Paul Mac Isaac, a computer repair store owner who last year was thrust into the scrum of the bitter U.S. presidential race as it neared its end in October.
Mac Isaac previously ran the computer repair business — the Mac Shop — at which President Joe Biden's son Hunter in April 2019 dropped off a computer for repairs. Biden allegedly never returned to pay for or retrieve the computer. In December of that year the FBI seized the computer, though prior to that seizure Mac Isaac had made a copy of the data from Biden's laptop.
The contents of that copy — including controversial emails appearing to depict foreign business entanglements involving Joe Biden — were eventually detailed by the New York Post in October of last year. Yet Twitter swiftly clamped down on the story, claiming that the report ran afoul of its guidelines forbidding the publication of hacked and/or revealing documents.
Mac Isaac in the lawsuit claims that Twitter's "specific intent" was to "communicate to its users … that [Mac Isaac] is a hacker and/or hacked the published materials."
The negative attention brought by the controversy resulted in Mac Isaac receiving "threats to his person and property," the lawsuit claims. Mac Isaac eventually "had to close his business" as a result.
The suit claims that Twitter "seemingly makes policy decisions based on whether the topic impacts a more liberal-leaning topic versus a more conservative-leaning topic."....
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The only excuses for companies like twitter deleting posts are:
1. Use of specific words that are banned.
2. Ad hominem attacks.
3. Badgering/stalking.
I didn’t include Trolling because that is just a lame excuse to get someone banned because you don’t like what they are saying.
"Reported and blocked" - for violation of Lefty groupthink...
PING!
Makes them a publisher, in violation of Section 230. Strip them of their exemption.
Dan Bongino I think said it best “It’s social media. It’s supposed to be social. If one user doesn’t like what another user says, they are free to say so. They don’t need moderators to tell them what is OK and what isn’t”.
Now ordinarily I’d be for private property rights. Twitter belongs to its owners/shareholders. But once some platform reached a critical mass it should be treated as a utility. They don’t shut off my gas, phone or electricity because they don’t like my dinner and phone conversations.
Love this business owner fighting back against Twatter & the Fascist Left.
I agree. My post was just saying that that is the MOST they could use as excuses, because anything else gets into actual content.
And I like them allowing ad-hom because the leftists always go there, and to their detriment.
“But once some platform reached a critical mass it should be treated as a utility. They don’t shut off my gas, phone or electricity because they don’t like my dinner and phone conversations.”
Yet.
They do post their own content.
And shadow banning, promoting content on user feeds, diminishing the rank of other content etc are also acts of publishing.
In LA, they shut off people’s electricity if they failed to abide by COVID rules.
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