Section 230 is supposed to provide protections like those for phone companies - AT&T can't be held liable because a group of bank robbers used the phones to plan their heist.

I think the government would have to own a share of twitter in order to protect civil rights on the platform

how so? you can just slap them with lawsuits for violating the law

having said that I don't like Twitter or Parler, personally - the only reason for me to use them is that a lot of people only announce stuff there, as a notification system. But I'm not a fan at all, whereas one of my brothers is positively addicted

I'd be more scared of a government run social media

I myself only really use it get notified as well

I had an idea for a social media company where you are allowed only 1 post per day, and 1 comment per day

or pay for premium to get 2

lol

Honestly, the timing of the pandemic couldn't have been any worse, especially on election year.

Sometimes the threat of government oversite is enough to get them to police themselves... That's how the Entertainment industry came up with the CARA rating system. DC started talking about forming censorship boards and the MPAA (a lobbying org) hired Jack Valenti to figure out how to keep DC at bay... It worked.

but who checks the government in that regard?

Gov. Cuomo said the recent Scotus decision was not definitive and is expected to enforce law as he sees fit at his own discretion

Well... the idea is to make it so the govt doesn't see a need to get involved. Canada has censorship boards by province, don't they?

i really dont want to be like canada

in regards to speech

That's the point...

or the UK

sucks here

the problem is these people really think they are fighting 'nazis', and not even a majority of the government even cares about the censorship

I've always had plans to run some social media stuff, but I don't see any viable funding mechanism in the current environment

all of the left supports it, and plenty of RINOs are happy about it

Executive Branches have been reaching like this for a while. Bush 43 wanted the line item veto. When he didn't get it, he just started righting notes right on the bills themselves indicating what he planned to do or not do for certain line items - if I remember correctly.

I would not say all of the left supports it.

the left in government

Well... In the case of Social Media, it's not the govt doing the censoring.

Dunno about RINOs. Seems like that's a synonym for 'apostate' and I have a hard time figuring out the distinction.

RINOs

they have an R next to their name but dont arent actually conservative?

First amendment, applies to the govt infringing on free speech. The rest of us can pretty much censor how we see fit, righ?

if the corporations attacked the left, they would fight them like there's no tomorrow

@TaLoN132 not if you are a 'platform'

if they censor, they are editorializing, and therefore liable for the content on their site

> they have an R next to their name but dont arent actually conservative?
@ImNotGas Seems easy to fix. Do they get in simply on the R? If so, shame on voters.

@Zuluzeit downballot voting

Well played, RINOs.

i mean lots of dems are like this as well

big business dems

The whole Liberal/Conservative dichotomy has become meaningless... We're now supposed to choose teams/tribes.

Biden is a big business dem, I reckon.

policy wise Chris Coons and Mitt Romney are probably itnerchangeable