“Twitter is a private company and so can censor as they wish”
“Twitter is a private company and so can censor as they wish”
For those who say, “Twitter is a private company and so can censor as they wish.”
(1) The federal government has proudly admitted to coordinating with Big Tech social media to censor counter-mainstream-narrative voices, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
(2) The more general issue is not what Twitter should be legally allowed to do [but see (3)], but what proponents of free expression should *encourage* them to do. And that is to behave as a public square, open to free expression, which is crucial to a free society.
(3) Public accommodations should be legally prohibited from discriminating on the basis of sex, ethnicity, orientation, age, etc., AND political viewpoint.
(4) There is a clear implicit contract with social media platforms, and only the politically motivated refuse to see it.
(5) Most of the people coming out to defend Twitter censorship on the basis of it being a private company are the same people who never support private companies for anything. You’ll have to excuse our skepticism.
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This idea that because Twitter is a private company they can do whatever is BS. No private business can do as it pleases. Imagine if your power company or water utility could ban your account with them because if something you shated online. These social media platfor6entire business is built in and %100 dependent on a tax payer funded internet. Section 230 I the communications act should allow an entire to either regulate its content and be liable for what's posted or not regulate it beyond removal of anything that is illegal like child porn and not be liable but certainly not both and thats what Twitter, Face6and all are doing, operating as both.
Mark, that tweet from June 1st about being OK with closing businesses but with Twitters censorship it's because much private company, who are you speaking to? The tweet is not a reply and there are no mentions in it so who is the recipient of that question?