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There were any amount of accusations of censorship ca 2020-21 when Twitter, a private company, chose to enforce terms of service and throw folks off for COVID-1
by bediger4000 1y ago
There were any amount of accusations of censorship ca 2020-21 when Twitter, a private company, chose to enforce terms of service and throw folks off for COVID-19 disinformation. I assume those same absolutists, who insisted that Twitter was censoring someone, will come down hard on the US Open for more overt, more specific censorship.
- frumplestlatz 1y agoThere is a valid argument that special protections afforded by the government, and traditionally only granted to common carriers — very limited liability for user speech — incur a moral responsibility for those receiving those protections to operate in a manner that does not interfere in their users’ free expression. The U.S. Open is in no way similar. They are not a public platform, do not operate in any way resembling a public square or common carrier, and are solely responsible and liable for the content they distribute.