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Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by jquery on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:07PM (#14055549)
If people only said nice and agreeable things there would be no need for the first amendment.
Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by warlox on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:46PM (#14056395)
Why should Twitter be coerced into publishing racist tripe?
Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by jquery on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:06PM (#14063095)
Why should AT&T be coerced into allowing racist phone calls? Why should ISPs be coerced into hosting racist web sites or allowing racists to download racist content?

The distinction between telecom infrastructure and Twitter/FB/Google is becoming less and less clear by the year.

Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by warlox on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:50PM (#14063399)
Your analogy is absurd. Social networks are nothing like telecom at all.

It's more like GoDaddy or NameCheap refusing to host stormfront.

Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by jquery on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:41PM (#14064026)
If GoDaddy was the only DNS provider, would you feel the same way? At what point does the government need to step in and say the Constitution applies here?
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Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by michaelmrose on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:26PM (#14055659)
In an environment where law, custom, or technical challenges makes it difficult to silence dissent you can speak out against popular injustice as well as voice unpopular racist opinions.
Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by djrogers on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:17PM (#14055612)
There needn't be any cultural value in the content of the speech - who claimed otherwise?