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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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• Re:SoylentNews ain't much better. Re:SoylentNews ain't much better. (Score: 2, Redundant) by aristarchus on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:34PM (2 children)

  by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:34PM (#627961) Journal

  Who has EVER claimed I am a "liberal"? I am a philosopher. Enough said.

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• Re:SoylentNews ain't much better. Re:SoylentNews ain't much better. (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 26 2018, @04:01AM (1 child)

  by khallow (3766) on Friday January 26 2018, @04:01AM (#628079) Journal

  Who has EVER claimed I am a "liberal"?

  AC just did!

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  • Re:SoylentNews ain't much better. (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday January 26 2018, @09:23AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday January 26 2018, @09:23AM (#628159) Journal

    That bastard!

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