Posted on 05/17/2021 8:30:35 AM PDT by McQ444
A federal judge in Massachusetts is set to force Twitter to explain whether or not it is a “state actor” or a truly private company, according to reports. The effects could be far-reaching in ending Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives.
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No.
Get a job.
Twitter is the very embodiment of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
Break Twitter and Facebook up into many different entities.
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Something that should have been done a long time ago. Both sides should have agreed to it. It’s blatantly obvious what they are doing. But the dems needed to use them to hide the steal. If the proof of what they did was allowed to be shown on social media then all would know and see it and judge for themselves.
This should have happened under Trump.
Reagan snuck a judge into a Commie district, and he got this case!
3xactly! Now a judge is going to ‘ask Twitter if they think they are doing anything wrong or not? Lemme guess what the a swer will be ‘no your honor’, then what?
It's a private company. Any conservative who thinks it's a good idea to allow government to tell private companies what they can and can't do, say, print or think... isn't a conservative.
Vomit up that idiotic belief in a few years when they start shutting your mobile phone for wrongspeak.
Twitter has an exemption from libel and slander laws because they bill themselves as "platform," not a "publisher". But part of being a "platform" is that they allow all kinds of opinions (within sane limits) rather than permitting only a select few opinions.
However, if they're censoring mainstream, non-toxic conservative thought (distinct from e.g., incitement to mass murder), they clearly aren't just a platform, but have become a publisher. As such, they are no longer immune to slander and libel civil liability.
Because they claim to not be a "publisher" under US Code 230, and therefore receive substantial, unique legal benefits and protections.
Private company can do what it wants? That is the argument that these Libs take regarding social media corporations, but the truly private little baker cannot seem to do what he wants when it comes to baking a cake that goes against his religious beliefs.
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At that level, there is no such thing as a "private company". They are all in a symbiotic relationship with Government and contribute massive propaganda efforts to support the people who own that Government.
"It's a big club and you are not in it". (George Carlin)
Twitter wields censorship powers that the Government does not want to take the blame for wielding.
Big corporations and big Governments must be restrained, and for the same reason. They can accumulate too much power over ordinary people.
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. " - Barack Obama.
Look FRiend, your views aren't fringey. Lots of people agree with you. They're just not conservatives.
Gotcha, so FR has to allow liberals and pornographers onto this site.
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