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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the dangerous-precedent dept.

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.

Source: https://www.dangerous.com/40574/arroz-strong-case-twitter-censorship-violates-californias-civil-rights-laws/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:46PM (13 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:46PM (#627850) Journal

    ISPs are private, so can charge what they like, mug content providers to get content into fast lanes, and this is all okay.
    Twitter and other online fora are private, but should be prevented from applying membership rules around bad behaviour, because.. what?

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:31PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:31PM (#627872) Journal

    Twitter and other online fora are private, but should be prevented from applying membership rules around bad behaviour, because.. what?

    Because otherwise the production of hot air will be greatly diminished, the populace may have some time to think by/for themselves and who knows what conclusions they'll end up with? Why take the risks?

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:41PM (1 child)

      by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:41PM (#627877) Journal

      I see:
      Stüpidity capture.
      Just like regulatory capture, only more vacuous.

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      "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:09PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:09PM (#627900) Journal

        Regulatory capture is relatively new. This is like "Panem et circenses"
        What is new though in this case: it's without the bread, so the circuses need to be ubiquitous, involve the spectators and run incessantly.
        Any chink brings the risk of a crumbling illusion.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:57PM (9 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:57PM (#627919)

    They should be barred from discriminating because "BAKE THE F*CKING CAKE" is Holy Writ now. Jack should be forced to obey his team's own book of rules. Twitter should be forced to shut up and post the tweet. Do like gab and allow users to mute users or posts with banned words if they like but if "common carrier" is a thing Twitter qualifies. At a minimum they should be denied all legal safe harbor provisions if they block users for their opinions since they are exerting editorial control.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:12PM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:12PM (#627931)

      Am I to infer from this that the jmorris has been muted on gab? Sad.

      • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:23PM (5 children)

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:23PM (#627946)

        The whole point is you don't even know if someone has muted you unless they go all drama queen and announce they are muting. They simply stop seeing your posts unless they go back and remove you. There is discussion about a time limited mute for when somebody is cluttering your feed with a topic you don't care about or just being a jerk, you could mute them for a few days and then it auto restores them.

        • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:39PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:39PM (#627966)

          Sounds like some kind of alt-right, neo-nazi, does not play well with others, libertarian sort of thing, for those who cannot bear disagreement and critical thinking.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 26 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday January 26 2018, @01:13AM (#628017) Homepage Journal

            One too many buzzwords to be a quality troll, sorry.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:17AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:17AM (#628037)

              But still, you reply. That is all a troll asks for. Deplorable. Guns-n-Religion. Republican. Pedophile. Wrestling Fan!

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 26 2018, @04:04AM (1 child)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 26 2018, @04:04AM (#628080) Journal
            More periods too.
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:32AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:32AM (#628165)

              Bake the fucking cake, khallow!

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:25PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:25PM (#627951) Homepage Journal

        Muting's an individual's choice over there not a system-wide thing, so it wouldn't inspire much butthurt.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:26PM (#627953)

      Yes I like this idea.

      However, it conflicts with your general trend of pro-corporate support. I guess it is because this corporation is one you are ideologically opposed to.

      Hypocrisy from Jmorris, News at 11.