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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: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:25PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:25PM (#627952) Journal

    Wait,
    Where did the government become responsible for publishing anyone's statements other than in a court transcript?

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  • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:41PM

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:41PM (#627967) Journal

    Beat me to it!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:08AM (#628154)

    Congressional Records? (Thank you, again, Senator Gravel!). And Newspapers of Record? Official notices, stuff like that.