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A comment on Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of liability protections.

Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by snowwrestler on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:24PM (#23341345)
Friendly reminder that any member of Congress can write and introduce whatever bill they want to.

My reading of the prospects for actual passage of this bill are approximately a butterfly fart in a tornado.

This is most likely what is sometimes called a "message bill": legislation that is not actually expected to pass but is introduced anyway in an attempt to score political points.

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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by tmaly on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:44PM (#23341666)
I am wondering if the Communications Decency Act is a violation of the 1st amendment to begin with.
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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by aaaaaaaaaaa10 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:02PM (#23341894)
While the First Amendment generally does not apply to private companies, the Supreme Court has held it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict . . . the free flow of information and ideas.”

https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-1588...

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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by Simulacra on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:58PM (#23341841)
I would agree with that. The CDA as a whole has been used to put far too many people in prison, and stifle free speech.
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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by Simulacra on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:58PM (#23341843)
The polls reflecting Trump's low poll numbers are the same ones that said he lost on the night he won the election.
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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by avmich on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:43PM (#23343101)
That case is rather unique and doesn't invalidate the idea of polling per ce.
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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by nutjob2 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:28PM (#23345321)
Your statement is an error in interpreting polls. Polls cannot tell you who will win the election, only the probability of each result. Trump has about a 30% chance of winning according to the polls.

The polls themselves were no less accurate as they have been historically, on average. They were not wrong, but have always had the limitation of only representing probabilities.

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Re:Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of li... by Simulacra on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:43PM (#23352252)
They were not wrong? I think FiveThirtyEight would disagree with you. Their polling showed Hillary would win. They were mostly confident in that poll, and yet only one (Los Angeles Times) was correct.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...

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