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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @03:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @03:58AM (#628078)

    It takes at least the threat of violence to enforce censorship. Sure we can let them draw first blood. But then, we must give them a war they won't believe. Remember what Goldwater said: *Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!* Words to live by. We never acquired our rights through submission to authority. We must make authority serve to protect our rights.