Twitter Free Speech Debate
The cluster discusses Twitter's content moderation practices, particularly around banning or restricting political figures like Trump, debating whether this constitutes censorship or is permissible as a private company's right under Section 230.
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Might as well read the op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/twitter-first-ame...
why? twitter isn't the government, nothing is stopping anyone's free speech.
republicans are not a protected class, twitter can ban them if they like. It's not remotely illegal.
Remind me why are we letting Twitter decide who can talk about what?
It's not censorship if the post is still accessible. It's Twitter inc. expressing their opinion.
Which has always been Twitter's defense when similar things happened on their platform. Shouldn't 230 apply here?
You mean shutdown Twitter? I think that's a bit extreme in this case.
Isn't Twitter supposed to support free speech?
twitter isn't doing those, they're losing friends through censorship. which they legally have every right to, but the powers that be are now campaigning to change that legal protection (exemption? sinve no one understands the second amendment)
Twitter is a company providing free service, and they have the right to prevent anyone from using it at their discretion without any explanation whatsoever. Twitter can explain their position but it can be completely wrong, and an explanation definitely does not make them any authority of any kind, and doesn't mean anything about other cases.