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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by imgabe on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:10PM (#32882977)
To use a bot you need to register an API key for it. Twitter or such could simply revoke the API access. The user is still free to post manually and their free speech is not impinged.
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by hedora on Saturday September 17, 2022 @11:07PM (#32884052)
You could just screen scrape and submit that way.

Twitter noticing and blocking your user account doesn't get them off the hook, according to the definition of user in the law.

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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by imgabe on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:19AM (#32908314)
Doesn't it? Pretty sure the Terms of Service would say something about not accessing the service in an automated fashion, except through the official API. They would be banning you then based on a ToS violation, not because of any viewpoint.
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by BlueTemplar on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:52PM (#32889096)
Remember how Twitter heavily restricted its API in 2014, with a lot of collateral damage for startups depending on it ?
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