A group of free-speech lawyers filed the most serious legal challenge yet to Twitter’s censorship policies Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, seeking a ruling preventing Twitter from banning users purely on the basis of their views and political associations.
The 29-page complaint contends that, under a California legal doctrine that recognizes some private facilities as “public forums,” Twitter may not discriminate against speech on their platform based purely on viewpoint. If successful, it would be the first extension of that doctrine to internet social media platforms and could transform the way free speech is treated online. The suit became all the more relevant Wednesday as Twitter stood accused of locking out thousands of conservatives under the guise of cracking down on “Russian bots.”
The genesis of the suit is Twitter’s November 2017 announcement that they would start banning and sanctioning users based on their offline behavior and associations. On December 18, 2017, Twitter, five years after their top British executive described the company as “the free speech wing of the free speech party,” made good on this threat, “purging” hundreds of mostly right-wing users.
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SO you can regulate free speech but you cannot regulate weapons designed to slaughter humans? Wow what a double standard
ReplyDeleteI was told two days ago by a self admitted democrat that gun stores don't do background checks! Lol. The person became very angry when I disagreed. Why?
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ReplyDelete"SO you can regulate free speech but you cannot regulate weapons designed to slaughter humans?"
Not 'regulate' free speech-- ensure free speech.
'Weapons' don't slaughter humans-- people with weapons might. Regulate the people.
You must be a demoncrap, since you are insane enough to think an inanimate object would actually move all by itself and do anything. Why don't you talk to all of your other mentally ill liberal friends, and tell them to STOP since they are the ones who are picking up the guns, with their hands, aiming the guns with their hands and SLAUGHTERING HUMANS. Maybe you should talk to a psychologist.
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