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Why is this insane to you? Where are you from?

• 21 9y ago
  From a country which lived under an authoritative regime and who knows what censorship will lead to.
  • icebraining 9y ago
    I'd say it's exactly because the US is not an authoritative regime that the same rules should apply for both random nobodies and the President.
  • deleted 9y ago
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  • linkmotif 9y ago
    Hmm I misread your comment. Still, a private company can do whatever it wants. Fact is, regardless, Twitter will never censor Trump or it’ll be the end of Twitter. But still, it’s a private company that’s not FCC regulated (yet).
    • TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
      Sure, Twitter is currently a private company. However, it's also a major forum used in the expression of speech in our country. At what point is a public website considered a public forum? If we have a constitutional right to free speech, and the majority of Americans use a certain website for speech, why shouldn't their constitutional rights extend onto that site?
      • linkmotif 9y ago
        > why shouldn't their constitutional rights extend onto that site? Because their involvement with Twitter is at will, because Twitter is a private institution, and because privacy is scared to our freedom. But mostly perhaps because twitter has not yet been designated a common carrier by the government, which many people are suggesting. I don’t really see twitter as a good fit for that, but then again, I’m not a legal scholar or lawmaker.