Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect...
by jpttsn on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:38AM
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They surely haven’t put a blanket ban on lying on Twitter?
Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect...
by hndudette2 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:59AM
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Nobody is arguing that these platforms don't have a legal right to do what they've done. The only debate is about what they ought to do, and whether the laws should be changed as a result of those preferences.
Regarding Parler: it is a large platform with a mixture of conservative speech and outright violent rhetoric. Does that justify its ban? The same is true for Twitter and FB (ie there exists a large amount of unmoderated extremist speech and calls for violence on these platforms). What makes it right to ban only Parler? Is there evidence that the density of such speech is higher there?
He could schedule a press conference at any time and have his words plastered all over Twitter within minutes by journalists.
Twitter as a platform made a choice, as a private entity. This choice is legally protected. Likewise Apple and Google both have the right to ban apps like Parler from their app stores under the same protections.
Nobody is banning "conservative" speech. What they are banning is outright lies, racist rhetoric, and calls for organized violent action.
If that has become synonymous with conservatism and the Republican party, then I would say that their "political movement" needs to be dismantled.