Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by bananabreakfast on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:46PM
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This has nothing to do with people and their debate. This is a direct threat to a company to violate their free speech which, in itself, is a crime not unlike directly threatening violence against a person.
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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by nwienert on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:37PM
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It’s a threat to regulate them as a public utility certainly, but that’s been done before to phone companies (by the left) in the past.
It’s definitely a threat. But I don’t see any people backing down, and using “chilling” to me is just pathos to try and make one side seem right. It’s a disagreement on what to do and how to run our big platforms.
Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by Nevermark on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:37PM
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Trump didn’t just disagree with Twitter’s opinion of his tweets, or how Twitter operates.
He made threats to retaliate, clearly to chill speech he disagrees with.
They are not the same thing. Not even close. And businesses will have to take his behavior into account, especially if some people give him a pass for this.
Trump keeps moving the bar, or trying to, in terms of pushing back against any organizational or legal limits on himself.
It has been both amazing and depressing to see how quickly people start making excuses for him, and declaring his behavior acceptable when it is clearly corruption.