Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
The social media giant may be guilty of violating of California law regarding discriminating against a political class, and being deceptive to their customer base. Twitter, by discriminating against people on the right, has exposed itself to a potential cascade of legal liability—including a potential class action suit.
Despite being from dangerous.com, this is not an attempted troll. The author gives a quite interesting analysis of Twitter's potential legal issues in censoring political speech in California.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:40PM
Protecting civil rights better than most states :) Reminder: anyone who wants to complain about tech giants violating privacy needs to remember that Big Corp != statewide demographics, and most Californians dislike the tech giants as well. Example: when I lived in SF working for a small shop I was called out at a bar as being "one of those fucking googlers" by some stranger who I hadn't even talked to.
I hope twitter has to pay out big time, and I guess this will lead us into the legal waters of when a private service becomes a public utility of sorts. Private ownership simply can not encompass such wide ground when it directly involves the public and I can't wait to see what regulations will get imposed on social media giants.