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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: 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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  • (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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