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> Issues with Trump aside, this lawsuit can be a great thing. Having a judge declare that Twitter, and other social media are public space and have to follow US
by tablespoon 5y ago
> Issues with Trump aside, this lawsuit can be a great thing. Having a judge declare that Twitter, and other social media are public space and have to follow US free speech laws instead of their own vague "Terms and Conditions" would be a huge improvement.
No, that would be hell. Literal spam is speech, too. Do you really want anti-spam technologies to be illegal?
- 988747 5y agoIf by "Literal spam" you mean something machine-generated and sent in millions of copies then it is pretty clear that can be differentiated from posts that are actually made by humans.
- tablespoon 5y ago> If by "Literal spam" you mean something machine-generated and sent in millions of copies then it is pretty clear that can be differentiated from posts that are actually made by humans. What are you talking about? Spam isn't machine-generated (not that it matters) and why would something sent in "millions of copies" get less protection from "US free speech laws"?