Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by sanp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:48PM
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And Twitter is free to block him as it pleases
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by pydry on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:49AM
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Provided they forgo legal common carrier protections they are, yes.
Once they do start censoring on that basis they become criminally liable for all content posted on the platform though.
If they're willing to take the same legal responsibility over all tweets that a publisher would over every page of its magazine id say let them. I'd like them to take legal responsiblity for the toxicity their platform generates.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by chillwaves on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:35PM
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He's speaking as the POTUS not a private citizen. He has duties to the office and to the constitution that supersede your claim to 1A.
What Trump is doing right now is treason against the country. You can call it free speech if you like.
And I have zero worries that any of Trump's legal jeopardy will ever effect myself because I am not a career criminal as he is.
The first amendment isn't there to protect you from his lies though. It's to protect you so that you can speak the truth when he or somebody like him wants to stop you.
Be careful what you wish for. The same mechanisms that are used to shut him up will be used to silence you one day.