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> but no one is under any obligation to publish it for you. Is the Post Office under an obligation to mail your book to your subscriber list? No one is asking
by ars 6y ago
> but no one is under any obligation to publish it for you.
Is the Post Office under an obligation to mail your book to your subscriber list?
No one is asking Twitter to put his messages on their front page, but anything who specifically subscribed should be able to see anything he writes.
- lhorie 6y agoNo, Twitter is within its right to remove stuff that goes against its policy. e.g. no one in their right mind would argue to keep a tweet up if it was a picture of child pornography.
- casefields 6y agoChild pornography is illegal. If Trumps tweet is illegal, then the authorities would love to know and the justice system can handle it. No one is asking Twitter to break the law, nor host illegal content of any kind.
- lhorie 6y agoSure, but the point is that Twitter would be justified in proactively removing said content before a legal order to that effect got served. More broadly, Twitter is not obligated to keep tweets up from anyone to anyone. It would be rather silly if, for example, all tweets from north america got deleted and people got up in arms accusing it of "censorship" (in a hypothetical scenario where unbeknownst to them, there was a catastrophic infrastructure failure).
- emptyparadise 6y agoThe USPS is a government agency, Twitter is not.