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>If logically followed, it very obviously means they can never remove any person from their platform for responding to a public official, at the very least. It
by SkyBelow 7y ago
>If logically followed, it very obviously means they can never remove any person from their platform for responding to a public official, at the very least. It entirely supersedes any restrictions that Twitter puts into their terms of service on behavior.
Yes, that is the cost to Twitter in hosting an official government account. If they do not like this, they can choose to not host an official government account.
Same way as if a venue decides to host an official government function they forfeit their normal ability to ban people for as long as that venue is serving as an official government location.
To give an extreme example, even a school cannot ban a registered sex offender from being on the premise as long as the school is serving as a voting place (assuming the individual still has their right to vote, which may possibly have been removed but isn't guaranteed).
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- icebraining 7y agoYour extreme example... isn't great: "The court ruled the state does not violate a convicted sex offender’s voting rights by prohibiting him from voting at a polling place located in a high school, and instead requiring him to vote via one of three alternatives." https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/46959-th-circuit-prohibits-sex-offender-from-voting-at-local-high-school?v=preview https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/46959-th-circuit-p... (Plus, schools where you vote are generally owned by the state, so it's not a good example for the restrictions on private companies)