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Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms. Nothing is stopping Nikki from hosting her o

Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms. Nothing is stopping Nikki from hosting her own website.

throw_m239339 5y ago
> Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms. Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.
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- renewiltord 5y ago
  Why does it go both ways? The symmetry isn’t obvious. I can kick you out of my house for whatever reason but I’m not automatically complicit if I let you visit and you pull out a rifle and shoot someone out the window when I wasn’t looking. That is right. And it should be that way.
  - d110af5ccf 5y ago
    My personal residence doesn't serve as a chosen communications venue for a significant fraction of the local populous. Network effects are real. Failing to consider them is specious. That doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of preventing these companies from moderating things. It just concerns me to see such obvious aspects disregarded.
    - renewiltord 5y ago
      Sure, but one still has to demonstrate a reason for the symmetry. It is certainly not self evident.
mc32 5y ago
Sure. An individual can’t count on a message being carried, yeah we know, it’s a private company and all… But… it should concern people the concerted effort to censor anything including the truth if it doesn’t fit a particular narrative. What is Twitter decided hey, they wanna be on the side of the police and now anyone reporting anything that goes against the police narrative gets banned, true or made up. Does that sound okay? It’s effed up of people think that that’s okay because they are a private company and it’s their platform…

Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms. Nothing is stopping Nikki from hosting her own website.

throw_m239339 5y ago

> Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms. Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.

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renewiltord 5y ago
Why does it go both ways? The symmetry isn’t obvious. I can kick you out of my house for whatever reason but I’m not automatically complicit if I let you visit and you pull out a rifle and shoot someone out the window when I wasn’t looking. That is right. And it should be that way.
- d110af5ccf 5y ago
  My personal residence doesn't serve as a chosen communications venue for a significant fraction of the local populous. Network effects are real. Failing to consider them is specious. That doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of preventing these companies from moderating things. It just concerns me to see such obvious aspects disregarded.
  - renewiltord 5y ago
    Sure, but one still has to demonstrate a reason for the symmetry. It is certainly not self evident.

mc32 5y ago

Sure. An individual can’t count on a message being carried, yeah we know, it’s a private company and all… But… it should concern people the concerted effort to censor anything including the truth if it doesn’t fit a particular narrative. What is Twitter decided hey, they wanna be on the side of the police and now anyone reporting anything that goes against the police narrative gets banned, true or made up. Does that sound okay? It’s effed up of people think that that’s okay because they are a private company and it’s their platform…