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Now being a strong first amendment advocate is a position that puts you on the right? Nationalizing things puts you on the right? Bizarro world indeed.
by r_smart 10y ago
Now being a strong first amendment advocate is a position that puts you on the right? Nationalizing things puts you on the right? Bizarro world indeed.
- pavlov 10y agoFree speech is not in itself a right-wing position, obviously. But the grandparent poster referenced "Twitter's banning and censorship practices", which is essentially an alt-right code phrase. Combining that starting point with a desire to nationalize a private media company makes for a very strange position.
- golemotron 10y agoReally? I am the GP and don't like the alt-right at all. Where is the code phrase book? I'd like to take a look at it so that I don't confuse anyone else. Fact is, Twitter has banned people selectively not only in the US but also across the world when tweets fall outside an ideological boundary or the views of the local government. As a private company, it's their right to do so but the world would be better served by a platform that guaranteed freedom of speech.
- pavlov 10y agoI apologize for making an unwarranted assumption about you. There has been so much talk about "Twitter censorship" where it really seems to mean "Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart should be able to continue trolling even when their methods violate Twitter's ToS".