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Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by ok123456 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:52PM (#33027785)
Doing actual actual crimes or committing a fraud using the phone, computer, fax, telex, or whatever other electronic means generally falls under wire fraud.

The phone company doesn't de-platform "literal nazis" simply for being "literal nazis."

Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by lovich on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:06PM (#33027958)
You are correct, but now you are getting into shades of grey more nuanced than

> Either you believe in an open internet or you don't. Either you're with us, or you're against us.

Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by ok123456 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:33PM (#33028231)
The distinction is between perfectly legal speech, and specific acts fraud or things that are direct, actionable, and credible threats to physical safety (e.g., bomb threats). This isn't a complicated blah blah, where we need a technocratic meta-god to put his thumb on the scales. The existing legal pre-computer legal frameworks cover these cases.
Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by Spivak on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:25PM (#33028158)
And if the literal nazis we’re actually using a private person to person (can be through a service) communication medium like a phone the number of people who want them deplatformed would drop to basically zero.

Your argument has to account for the fact that Twitter is more like public radio than a phone and that WhatsApp is more like a phone than radio.

Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by EricDeb on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:22AM (#33032763)
To be fair I do see articles written pointing to the fact that hate groups are using signal or discord, the implication being that such companies are "platforming" those groups.
Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by yibg on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:28PM (#33029221)
What happens if the literally nazis robo called thousands of people with nazi propaganda?
Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by lmm on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:16PM (#33030087)
They might get cut off for robocalling, but (if the telephone company is obeying the law) in a content-neutral way.
Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 by ok123456 on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:12AM (#33030835)