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Time to break up Twitter and kick the CEO out. It's no longer a place that allows 'free speech'.
by suyash 6y ago
Time to break up Twitter and kick the CEO out. It's no longer a place that allows 'free speech'.
- falcolas 6y agoWhile I agree it should provide free speech (that's another discussion though), it never has provided such a platform.
- the-smug-one 6y agoHackerNews is moderated, you better leave this platform quickly!
- mxcrossb 6y agoAmusingly enough, almost every top level comment in this thread is faded to white (which I think means downvotes?).
- snarf21 6y agoThis is no more a removal of free speech than a demand to print someone's opinion on the front page of NYT. Twitter is a private platform. Feel free to use any other platform.
- gregd 6y agoThe 1st Amendment acts as a constraint on Government. Private companies are under no obligation to protect your right to free speech.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Private companies are under no obligation to protect your right to free speech. More to the point, your right to free speech isn’t a constraint on the private companies right to exercise theirs. And even more to the point, @realDonaldTrump is (and has been described as such by its owner in court cases) a official communication tool of the Office of the President; it trumping the preferences of private media firm by whose resources it is relayed would be a direct, government violation of the right of free speech/press.
- Triv888 6y agoMaybe when a company becomes so large, it should be subject to different rules then.
- netsharc 6y agoThis is not screaming "fire!" in a crowded theater, this is screaming "Burn the theater down!"...