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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by istjohn on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:14PM (#24902622)
Section 230 doesn't require a platform to be neutral. This is a common, but false, idea. Section 230 says: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service, a platform, shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

Verge has a good article that discusses this in more detail: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20700099/section-230-comm...

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by temp8964 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:28PM (#24902729)
Yes. Section 230 doesn't require a platform to be neutral. But Twitter insists it's neutral, so it MUST be neutral.
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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by olliej on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:16AM (#24904882)
No, it doesn’t.

But the other problem is defining neutral - many people seem to have decided that removing objectively false information is somehow not neutral. Which it isn’t.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by temp8964 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:12PM (#24909468)
"No, it doesn’t."?

What?

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