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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: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:03PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:03PM (#627924) Homepage Journal

    Ad hom FTW, eh?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @12:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @12:39AM (#627998)

    You know pedophiles are politically active. I guess they're a protected class now.
    All three branches of our government have now been totally subverted.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Friday January 26 2018, @02:53AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 26 2018, @02:53AM (#628052) Journal

      You know pedophiles are politically active.

      I know the contrary, my friend.
      I know the professional politically actives are paedophiles.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:50AM (#628050)

    Not in the least. The guy got banned from twitter for doing the same things he got banned from those other places. His behavior has been excessive, to say the least. That means he's got an enormous hurdle to clear with the courts. TL;DR Good Luck With That.