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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by kelnos on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:47PM (#21264855)
Private companies are in general allowed to censor what they want. Only the US government is subject to the First Amendment, not Twitter.

However, I think a case could be made that deplatforming one candidate in preference to another would be a donation to the remaining candidates campaign, and could fall afoul of some campaign finance rules.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by raxxorrax on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:59AM (#21267480)
I think if companies that provide a platform are allowed to censor content, the rules should simply be changed.

We get a lot of problems otherwise.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by djsumdog on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:14PM (#21265092)
Twitter should just blanket ban all candidates then. Seriously, all presidential candidates, all senators, all congressmen and women, even local mayors. Ban everyone!
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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by CapricornNoble on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:33PM (#21265769)
I would be in favor of this, paradoxically. I'd like to think many of the popular politicians would move to the same alternative platform (maybe Parler?), and hopefully pull a bunch of Twitter users with them. Anything that chips away at censorious big-tech monopolies is a move in the right direction.
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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by basementcat on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:08PM (#21266368)
> However, I think a case could be made that deplatforming one candidate in preference to another would be a donation to the remaining candidates campaign, and could fall afoul of some campaign finance rules.

Could Twitter designate itself (or a subsidiary) as a Political Action Committee so they can deplatform (or promote) whomever they like?

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