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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:12PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:12PM (#627931)

    Am I to infer from this that the jmorris has been muted on gab? Sad.

  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:23PM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:23PM (#627946)

    The whole point is you don't even know if someone has muted you unless they go all drama queen and announce they are muting. They simply stop seeing your posts unless they go back and remove you. There is discussion about a time limited mute for when somebody is cluttering your feed with a topic you don't care about or just being a jerk, you could mute them for a few days and then it auto restores them.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:39PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:39PM (#627966)

      Sounds like some kind of alt-right, neo-nazi, does not play well with others, libertarian sort of thing, for those who cannot bear disagreement and critical thinking.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 26 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday January 26 2018, @01:13AM (#628017) Homepage Journal

        One too many buzzwords to be a quality troll, sorry.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:17AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:17AM (#628037)

          But still, you reply. That is all a troll asks for. Deplorable. Guns-n-Religion. Republican. Pedophile. Wrestling Fan!

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 26 2018, @04:04AM (1 child)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 26 2018, @04:04AM (#628080) Journal
        More periods too.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:32AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:32AM (#628165)

          Bake the fucking cake, khallow!

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:25PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:25PM (#627951) Homepage Journal

    Muting's an individual's choice over there not a system-wide thing, so it wouldn't inspire much butthurt.

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