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The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws

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

MrPlow writes:

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: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:10PM (3 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:10PM (#627862)

    The funny thing is the number of people with that kind of viewpoint that are saying "No, we're not Nazis, we're just hanging out with a group of white people who hate non-whites and Jews and appropriate Norse symbolism and use German words and phrases to advocate for basically the same ideology as the Nazis did."

    That said, punching them is not the right response, unless they're trying to punch you. Which sometimes they are.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:56PM (#627916)

    That said, punching them is not the right response

    Sorry bro, bashing them requires more muscle mass than I have.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:12PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:12PM (#627932) Homepage Journal

    Count the actual numbers. They're a pathetic, non-issue boogie-man. They're just loud about it.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 26 2018, @03:40AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 26 2018, @03:40AM (#628072) Journal

    The funny thing is the number of people with that kind of viewpoint that are saying "No, we're not Nazis, we're just hanging out with a group of white people who hate non-whites and Jews and appropriate Norse symbolism and use German words and phrases to advocate for basically the same ideology as the Nazis did."

    The number is zero, amirite?