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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:54PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:54PM (#627890)

    Well, then you shouldn't mind when you're called "literally Hitler" then!

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @10:05PM (#627897)

    Unless you are a communist, which was popular in the 1930s, Hitler is to your left. He opposed capitalism, just not as much as Marx and Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:17PM (#627937)

      The plane took off a while ago, did you not hear it pass way over your head?