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A not-so-fine line between compulsion and requests. The government is allowed to reach out to and talk to Twitter. Taibbi mentions two "suppression" interactio
by nkozyra 4y ago
A not-so-fine line between compulsion and requests. The government is allowed to reach out to and talk to Twitter.
Taibbi mentions two "suppression" interactions:
> Taibbi reported Twitter had "received and honored" deletion requests from both the Biden campaign and the Trump White House; he presented examples of the former but not of the latter.
(per Wiki)
Only one of those groups was actively in government and as expressed both were requests.
- zugi 4y agoSocial media company censoring and so-called "fact checking" really stepped up around 2018. That's when Congress hauled heads of social media companies into Congressional hearings and both Democrats and Republicans demanded that they start filtering out "bad" information, or else Congress would make them! In a strictly legal sense this was not "compulsion", but given Government's power to destroy their businesses if it chose, this was essentially government outsourcing censorship.