Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by gumby on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:50PM
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> To all the censorship apologists here: you've given unelected and unaccountable people at big tech companies the ability to decide what people can say in public. Is that really the world you want to live in?
You have things backwards: they haven't and in fact I do and already do.
What gives Twitter the right to decide what can be said via its software is the first amendment to the US constitution. Which is a world I live in and do want to live in -- it's stronger and better than the "free" speech guarantees in Europe.
The first amendment prevents elected people from deciding what people can and can't say in public.
And twitter banning someone doesn't actually control what they can say "in public", merely on Twitter. I don't use twitter and I heard about this from one of those other channels.
Throughout US history the person with the press has been able to decide what is printed on its press. Today there are more opportunities to be heard than ever before.
You have things backwards: they haven't and in fact I do and already do.
What gives Twitter the right to decide what can be said via its software is the first amendment to the US constitution. Which is a world I live in and do want to live in -- it's stronger and better than the "free" speech guarantees in Europe.
The first amendment prevents elected people from deciding what people can and can't say in public.
And twitter banning someone doesn't actually control what they can say "in public", merely on Twitter. I don't use twitter and I heard about this from one of those other channels.
Throughout US history the person with the press has been able to decide what is printed on its press. Today there are more opportunities to be heard than ever before.