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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) by insanumingenium on Friday January 26 2018, @12:25AM (4 children)

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Friday January 26 2018, @12:25AM (#627991) Journal
    The clear context in this case was private institutions.

    That said my response applies even against violence, disobedience and outright mockery beats the snot our of violence whenever possible. MLK was successful in a way the black panthers never were.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @02:31AM (#628040)

    I'm not sure what MLK did, other than provide a sound bite to play to schoolchildren annually.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:15AM (#628156)

      Sheeet! We done found us another racist! Hot dog! How many does that make for this thread? Member this spot, it's dadgum good for racist fishing!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @04:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @04:53AM (#628101)

    There is a pretty good argument that MLK was successful at least in part because of the black panthers. They moved the overton window far enough for MLK to seem honest and reasonable.