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They claim to be a platform, not publishers, so they shouldn't be able to invoke publisher rights and be the judge of what can or cannot be published. Let the g
by rmbyrro 5y ago
They claim to be a platform, not publishers, so they shouldn't be able to invoke publisher rights and be the judge of what can or cannot be published. Let the government do this mediation. Twitter should let people ask a judge to issue content take downs based on the law and just comply with it.
- acallan 5y agoThere is simply no meaningful legal distinction between the two in this context. See https://twitter.com/badsec230takes https://twitter.com/badsec230takes
- pjc50 5y ago"Twitter is _not allowed_ to remove porn, spam, doxxing, or death threats without a court order (of what jurisdiction?)" would immediately collapse into goatse chaos.
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- kylecordes 5y agoIt's shocking how many otherwise smart people are naïve about this. Even those who have been around the Internet long enough to know full well what happens with any text box (or worse, image upload) offered.
- rmbyrro 5y agoThese are real issues, but I don't think we need to give Twitter full power as arbiter of society's speech in order to curb them.