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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by MollyRealized on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:52PM (#33374810)
The right of free speech doesn't apply to a private company. A company has every right to dictate what services it will provide and the conditions for using those services. It is not a public communications carrier.
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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by thingification on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:29PM (#33375402)
This is to conflate (as so often) the USA's legal/constitutional codes with the principle of free speech. That principle has to do with promoting criticism of ideas, and preventing the suppression of criticism. The US codes are (just) one instance of a way to support that principle. The principle applies to all criticism, and all suppression of criticism.
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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by chudmeister on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:42PM (#33375626)
Ah yes the NPC response to the concept of free speech being mentioned.
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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by FormerBandmate on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:48PM (#33375720)
Musk after banning @elonjet in 3 minutes
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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by ilyt on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:50AM (#33381654)
> It is not a public communications carrier.

It has 400 million users. By all other definition it is a public space

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by throwayyy479087 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:52AM (#33385129)
Weird how this idea is only getting traction now that Elon owns Twitter, and not when they were censoring everything right of Mao.
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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by xigoi on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:14AM (#33384195)
And for the same reason Musk has a right to unban them, so what are you complaining about?
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