Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing

Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by alexis_fr on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:47PM (#22351658)

That is a solution only valid for US and for the current legislation since it was introduced in 2006. It can be changed at any time.

For example other countries may use of laws (EU Arricle 13, for instance) to bend social media [1], and Facebook has accepted to have Marlène Schiappa’s (our Minister of Equality) agents in-house. Law is the embodiment of the current political power balance, not a fixed referential to stake culprits upon. And for the moment, social media are the power in the balance, so it’s hard to use the law against them.

[1] https://juliareda.eu/2019/12/french_uploadfilter_law/

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by Notorious_BLT on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:52PM (#22351691)

So you're saying that Social media sites have more power than the elected government of a country, and you're arguing that's a a GOOD thing? Or am I misinterpreting that?

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