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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by hintymad on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:33PM (#24793533)
Exactly. I guess banning content on a private platform by its private owner is totally okay, at least legally. Banning content with double standards, though, makes the platform editorial, which means people should be able to sue the company left and right.

And hacked in what way? Didn't the repair shop owner take ownership of the computer after repeatedly asking for payment but not getting it? Didn't the owner give the hard drive first to FBI, then to a few media, and then to Giuliani?

As for fact checkers, Twitter didn't really fact check those media who give a report that says "anonymous source says", right? Twitter didn't really fact check that Jack Tapper contradicted himself now and in 2016 on exactly the same fine people hoax, right? Twitter didn't really fact check The Project 1619 that teaches us to hate America with a long list of inaccuracies (if not outright lies) or the critical race theory that claims that all white people are born racists or Asian people are complicit racists because they bought the values like working hard or being good at STEM, right? Or why isn't leaked tax records not "hacked"(FWIW, I'm only arguing the definition of "hacked", not whether it's good or bad to reveal tax record).

Oh wait, I guess I'm not exactly following the righteous narratives here, as all the morally superior mainstream media are doing. So this makes me a what? A bigot? A Nazi? A brown but really white supremacist? A racist?

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by magicalist on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:40PM (#24794390)
> Banning content with double standards, though, makes the platform editorial, which means people should be able to sue the company left and right.

Unless Section 230 gets repealed, it's the exact opposite, actually.

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by hintymad on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:00PM (#24794635)
Yeah, Section 230 protects them, and I think Twitter shouldn't be protected by 230 for their actions.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by magicalist on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:08PM (#24794739)
> and I think Twitter shouldn't be protected by 230 for their actions

I don't see how. Their actions are explicitly what are protected:

> Civil liability - No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of

> (A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by zaroth on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:11PM (#24794768)
What do the words “in good faith” mean in that context?
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by magicalist on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:55PM (#24795279)
> What do the words “in good faith” mean in that context?

Essentially nothing, which is why a few of the proposed bills to punish tech companies for removing content have tried to turn that into a clause with teeth.

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by tick_tock_tick on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:27AM (#24798465)
Basically if you took twitters actions and did the exact opposite it would be "in good faith". They just don't give a fuck since they assume they won't suffer consequences.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by username90 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:38PM (#24795089)
Hiding negative articles about Biden that wouldn't have been hidden if they were about Trump goes under which of those kinds? Section 230 lets you filter out unrelated disturbing content like porn, it doesn't let you inject political bias.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by magicalist on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:53PM (#24795254)
> Section 230 lets you filter out unrelated disturbing content like porn, it doesn't let you inject political bias.

It's important to remember that it's the first amendment that protects Twitter ability to filter anything it wants on its own platform, but it's the "material that the provider or user considers...otherwise objectionable" part of Section 230 that maintains the liability shield for other content that remains on their platform. That covers removal of essentially any content.

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by username90 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:59PM (#24795322)
Whether it covers it or not is up to the courts to decide.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by wang_li on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:38AM (#24798150)
At a certain point moderation becomes speech. Literally these words are not my words, they are Meriam-Webster’s. I just chose which ones to include in my comment. In so doing I convey a particular message.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by biztos on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:40PM (#24794388)
The rest of your polemic aside, specifically what do you think makes Twitter more susceptible to lawsuits here?
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by whimsicalism on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:35PM (#24796482)
I'm assuming it's a reference to the fact that engaging in editorial conduct voids a platform's section 230 safe harbor.