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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.
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The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @01:09AM (3 children)
That's the status quo, yes, but I don't think it should be. Once you get to be as big as Twitter and Facebook, censorship begins to cause real harm to society, potentially even being able to swing elections. As a more left-minded person, I don't understand the 'Let's unleash the beast of the free market when it comes to censorship!' mentality that comes from a lot of other left-wing type people. I understand it from the right, but not the left. You can't view corporations as big as Facebook as a mere private matter anymore; it's far larger than just kicking someone out of your house. Yet, you don't consider any of these societal implications and just repeat memes.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 26 2018, @02:03AM (2 children)
Funny how it all seems to be coming from the left lately, ain't it? Did we take a vote and decide to pass the censorious puritan torch from the religious right to the insane left or was it spontaneous?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:22AM (1 child)
Just posted a new submission, that will probably be rejected or deep-sixed, thanks to TMB, but it is right on this topic. https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24545 [soylentnews.org] Of course, look quick, it may not be there long, since we could be sued for telling the truth!!!
Oh, the Huge Mantee!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:54AM
So, you're saying we should silence those who are using their free speech in a way you view as improperly? You do realize that this is precisely the same as saying you were against free speech all along, yes?
Fuck yes, free speech is dangerous. It's supposed to be. That's the entire point. You're not supposed to be able to only have what you want to hear spoken. It should absolutely make you quake in your booties that people are free to expose your bullshit for the bullshit that it is. Which is what seems to be happening. Which proves the whole thing works as intended.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.