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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:07PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:07PM (#627861)

    I believe EDIII is on the liberal side of things actually, but apparently defending the civil liberties of shitheads automatically makes you also a shithead. Someone should tell the ACLU!

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:54PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:54PM (#627889)

    The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
                    - H. L. Mencken

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:11PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:11PM (#627929) Homepage Journal

      Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
                - H. L. Mencken

      No mention of Mencken is complete without that quote.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @03:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @03:45AM (#628075)

        No mention of Mencken is complete without that quote.

        Why? Doesn't seem particularly relevant to anything here.