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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 26 2018, @02:03AM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday January 26 2018, @02:03AM (#628030) Homepage Journal

    I understand it from the right, but not the left.

    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?

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:22AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:22AM (#628762) Journal

    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

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:54AM (#628810) Homepage Journal

      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.

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