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> I'm am so, so sick of this legally illiterate line of argument. Well, then I guess it's fair for me to complain about being tired of arrogance and straw mans
by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> I'm am so, so sick of this legally illiterate line of argument.
Well, then I guess it's fair for me to complain about being tired of arrogance and straw mans.
> The First Amendment doesn't prohibit "censorship" on a private platform.
But that's exactly the question. Does the first amendment protect private censorship by social media platforms as a form of "speech"? Or the federal government and the states are free to legislate against it?
> This is the same protection MSNBC and Fox News have to choose who is in their broadcasts and which comments are deleted from their sites.
That's a disingenuous comparison. No one seriously thinks that everything that is published on Twitter is Twitter's opinion, or is in anyway endorsed by them.
The same is not true about news outlets. They have an editorial stance.
- vinyl7 4y ago> The same is not true about news outlets. They have an editorial stance. Was Twitter/Facebook considered editorializing user content when they started adding "Fact checkers say this is false" to posts?