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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2) by dry on Friday January 26 2018, @02:11AM
The problem is that private property rights are usually diminished when that private property is open to the public. The obvious example is that the cops can't just enter a private dwelling place but are free to enter a pub, store, mall etc and go anywhere where the public is free to go.
Speech is a bit trickier but it seems that the Constitution of California gives more free speech rights and the courts have ruled that in a public place such as a food court in a mall, there are free speech rights and Federally, it has been ruled that in a company town, you have free speech rights on the privately owned sidewalk. This is good as otherwise, for example, Congress could just sell all the roads, sidewalks, parks and such in Washington DC to a private company and let the private company stop speech around the government.
In Twitters case, I guess it comes down to whether they're a private company that is open to the public or as you mention, a simple private publisher. Cases like this is why I'd hate to be a Judge as it is not very clear cut.