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Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by vectorpush on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:33PM (#14056037)
> Just because something has no cultural value doesn't stop someone, int he country, from having the right to say it.

Nobody is denying them that right. You don't have a right to a twitter account. If someone won't allow you to post on their website, you're free to post it on your own website. That's free speech.

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Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by ThomPete on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:06PM (#14056210)
It says something about the platforms integrity if it only silence one side of the equation even though it might be its right to do so.
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Re:Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump ... by vectorpush on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:23PM (#14056285)
> It says something about the platforms integrity

And? I don't have a stake in the integrity of twitter or any other private business. If I don't like the product, I don't use it, same as any other business. Frankly, my default assumption regarding any business is that its integrity only goes as far as it affects the bottom line, and that has proven to be true with pretty much every business I've encountered. None of this has anything to do with free speech.

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