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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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• Solution: People must put money where mouth is. Solution: People must put money where mouth is. (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @01:55AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @01:55AM (#628029)

  "Put up or shut up". The only problem here is that there is this one particular organization in society (the one that calls itself "government") which decides what to do with society's resources through "do-as-I-say" coercion rather than "do-as-we-previously-agreed" cooperation; democracy is the problem—censorship matters so much, because people vote, and those votes are used to instruct the men-with-guns to fuck someone over.

  The solution is capitalism: Your "vote" (e.g., your ability to decide what to do with society's resources) is tightly coupled to how productive you are for society, and interaction must occur according to explicit rules (e.g., contracts) to which each party agrees in advance of interaction.

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• Re:Solution: People must put money where mouth is. Re:Solution: People must put money where mouth is. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @05:08AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @05:08AM (#628108)

  "...how productive you are for society..."
  You mean "how productive your are for your wealthy capitalist overlords".
  TFTFY

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  • Everyone is Capitalist, even if labor is all u hav (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:42AM (#628142)

    Maybe a capitalist overlord is better than a non-capitalist overlord.

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• Re:Solution: People must put money where mouth is. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:49AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:49AM (#628173)

  That is some serious delusion you've got going on there. Just remember, while in the depths of your cult bake sale, eugenics is bad!

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