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For those people trying to make this political, it's not. Trump could easily use this to pressure tech companies to take down posts advocating for "violent" abo
by oceanplexian 2y ago
For those people trying to make this political, it's not. Trump could easily use this to pressure tech companies to take down posts advocating for "violent" abortions, or Palestinian "misinformation", or whatever left-of-center viewpoint you could think of. SCOTUS just said it's A-OK to use the full force of government to intimiate companies into restricting free speech.
- krapp 2y ago>SCOTUS just said it's A-OK to use the full force of government to intimiate companies into restricting free speech. Speaking of trying to make this political... this decision says nothing of the sort.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> Trump could easily use this to pressure tech companies to take down posts advocating for "violent" abortions, or Palestinian "misinformation", or whatever left-of-center viewpoint you could think of. Yes, and they did. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru... > Oftentimes, requests would demand Twitter stop “shadowbanning” certain conservative accounts, or that the company reinstate banned or suspended right-wing personas. Other times, offices of senior Trump administration officials would send emails seeking to remove tweets that they believed to be “hate speech” or death threats aimed at their principals. And over the years, the knowledgeable sources say, staffers for Republican officials would regularly flag to Twitter content that they believed violated the app’s terms of service or other policies, including on spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.” Tech companies can, and regularly do, say "no", as the First Amendment explicitly permits.