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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   
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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• another lefty, unless you are extreme left another lefty, unless you are extreme left (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.

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• Re:another lefty, unless you are extreme left (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?

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