for freedom!

I think it is wonderful that the big platforms choose to sensor
their MySpace moment is coming

I heard Tim say it before, Section 230 of the US communications decency act gives big tech power. I remember hearing from Tim that Twitter argued in court they could deny service to anyone, even based on other reasons like race/gender? Am I remembering that right?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-arrests-elizabeth-lecron-damon-joseph-for-separate-alleged-terror-plots-near-toledo-ohio/

CDA s230 grants legal immunity to "neutral platforms"

@Nomad under safe harbour they forfeited that right to gain immunity from lawsuits

They aren't neurtral

but USMCA rewrote CDA s230 with no neutral platform requiremnet

oh well

so now they are coming out as not neutral

fuck us all then.

and any intelligent observer has recognized the platforms were not neutral for some time

well

Well yes.

and twitter itself, with a federal judge, got it ruled that anyone not being able to post on trump's twitter page is a violation of the 1st ammendent

yes and no

like that imam who wants to stop radical islamic terrorists.. if someone has a wild out of control beard.. they might be a terrorist since trimming your beard is bad in islam

it is good that big tech is exposing itself

really good

so twitter itself called banning people from twitter illegal

apple: "our values guide our curation decisions"
every clueful person: "no shit, tim"

yet nothing is done about it because no one seems to have any spine

done... in what sense?

so under twitter's own guide, from the hand of a leftist activist judge, it ruled that they cannot ban people from twitter because donald trump's twitter page is a town square and covered under 1st amendment

But that won't ever be applied fairly Misomania

removed trump's abilty to block people as well under it

if any page on twitter is 1st amendment, they all are

those cases will eventually hit the supreme court

and the court has indicated a willingness to consider some forums to be the public square

and it won't matter.

so maybe some people will be able to sue

because shit like this only is held up for the left wing.

that means that no one can be banned or blocked from twitter, under twitter's own legal victory

but it's not a real solution

i believe they're just claiming gov officials twitter since its communicating gov statements

twitter may be in a poor position to delete or deny accounts

we'll see

but, at the end of the day, that ruling only applies to accounts operated by public officials
within their official capacity

nothing else, really

atm it only applies to trump's page

and, the worst possible reading of it (which is probably the correct reading)
is that the official cannot ban
but twitter is in no way restricted