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> You should clarify your argument here. News media can "censor" election speech by simply not covering it. They, actually, legally cannot if they are public b

> You should clarify your argument here. News media can "censor" election speech by simply not covering it. They, actually, legally cannot if they are public broadcast and not cable [1]. In this case, they blocked a campaign trying to publish on the platforms. It's as close of an analog as possible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

joshuamorton 6y ago
If a candidate swore during an interview, the network would be within their rights to prevent that candidate from speaking on the network until they promised to not violate network policies. "equivalent opportunity" does not mean that they are free to do anything, as long as the rules that twitter has are enforced evenly, it's fine. We just haven't seen the BidenForPresident twitter account tweet Barron's texts with his girlfriend.
- abernard1 6y ago
  > We just haven't seen the BidenForPresident twitter account tweet Barron's texts with his girlfriend. If those tweets said that daddy met with a foreign government and got him a job, would Twitter take it down?
  - joshuamorton 6y ago
    What was the point of asking this question? It's (firstly) a mischaracterization of what happened, and secondly, when I say "yes", you're going to either not respond, or say "yeah right" and right off my response as misinformed or propaganda. There's no point in having the discussion if you assume your conclusions.
    - abernard1 6y ago
      The emails in question have an eminently unqualified son of the Vice President of the United States making $50K a month from a Ukranian energy company. And that company thanking him for meeting with his father. If Donald Trump Jr. did this exact thing and his father was the person in the email, would he get a Twitter removal? Would there have been an army of Twitter moderators in the wings to protect his privacy? Would they ban the Biden campaign from even mentioning the article existed? And yes, you know what I'm going to say. "Yeah right." Because the reasons Twitter gave for the takedown happened quite a while afterwards and they had to change their policy to justify it. Currently, acquired knowledge of Trump's taxes is PII, and it's illegal. That hasn't stopped Twitter from doing absolutely nothing about it, along with hundreds of other high-profile examples over the years.

joshuamorton 6y ago

If a candidate swore during an interview, the network would be within their rights to prevent that candidate from speaking on the network until they promised to not violate network policies. "equivalent opportunity" does not mean that they are free to do anything, as long as the rules that twitter has are enforced evenly, it's fine. We just haven't seen the BidenForPresident twitter account tweet Barron's texts with his girlfriend.

abernard1 6y ago
> We just haven't seen the BidenForPresident twitter account tweet Barron's texts with his girlfriend. If those tweets said that daddy met with a foreign government and got him a job, would Twitter take it down?
- joshuamorton 6y ago
  What was the point of asking this question? It's (firstly) a mischaracterization of what happened, and secondly, when I say "yes", you're going to either not respond, or say "yeah right" and right off my response as misinformed or propaganda. There's no point in having the discussion if you assume your conclusions.
  - abernard1 6y ago
    The emails in question have an eminently unqualified son of the Vice President of the United States making $50K a month from a Ukranian energy company. And that company thanking him for meeting with his father. If Donald Trump Jr. did this exact thing and his father was the person in the email, would he get a Twitter removal? Would there have been an army of Twitter moderators in the wings to protect his privacy? Would they ban the Biden campaign from even mentioning the article existed? And yes, you know what I'm going to say. "Yeah right." Because the reasons Twitter gave for the takedown happened quite a while afterwards and they had to change their policy to justify it. Currently, acquired knowledge of Trump's taxes is PII, and it's illegal. That hasn't stopped Twitter from doing absolutely nothing about it, along with hundreds of other high-profile examples over the years.