Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by everdrive on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:58PM (#23331723)

Twitter's not the supreme court, and they don't have to set a universal maxim to act.

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by mc32 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:03PM (#23331760)

Exactly. They are not, but they like to play like they are.

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by diffrinse on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:31PM (#23332382)

Because it's their walled garden and everyone using it signed a contract acknowledging this

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by RealityVoid on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:40PM (#23332458)

You can argue it's wrong or imoral or destructive to society or whatnot, by you can not argue that, within the context of US law, it is illegal. They are perfectly within the bound of the law to do what they do.

What would NOT be lawful would be Trump to close them down because they did what they did. That is full stop illegal if he did it. Not sure how legal it even is to threaten it this way.

At this point, Twitter might as well even close Trump's account. Still legal, still within their rights.

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by lenkite on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:04AM (#23333945)

Sure they can. And then they can be treated as a publisher with ALL the legal liabilities. They can be sued in court as the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Section 230 will no longer be applied to them.

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