twitter needs to be regulated and FORCED to follow the first amendment
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They need to decide if they are
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The problem is when they are playing offense they act like a publisher but when they are playing defense, they act like they are an open forum. They shouldn't be able to have it both ways.
If Twitter isn't a public forum then 1 + 1 = 3
provate corporations should absolutely have ti adhere to the Constitution
unless you disagree with the Constitution?
if you truly believe that the Constitution is an amazing and well written document then you would absolutely have no problem with corporations following it
OK snowflake
they use the public broadband spectrum owned by we the people
Legendary supeper saiyn level kek GEOTUS.
Cuckservatives better wake up quick, Big Tech is pushing them into the shadowrealm.
In reality, they fit the legal description of a telephone exchange.
We had this problem (censorship) with local, private telephone exchanges.
Laws are in place to protect us, we just need some Attorney Generals to declare them to be a telephone exchange.
The FCC needs to declare they are a publisher and treat them as such.
They shouldn't get to decide at all the moment they lock and censor anyone for legal behavior
The FCC needs to declare they are a public forum* and treat them as such. The publisher thing is a lame cop out that won't fix the problem and in fact could and probably would lead to sites like this being sued.
This isn't a public forum though.
This isn't but Twitter is.
I honestly don't care which way they go, as long as they pick one and stop letting them skirt the laws of both.
However, opening your "business" to the public, ostensibly "for free" is quite clearly opening a public service/forum, with the end goal of profiting by marketing to that user base. At the most basic of levels, a social media platform (they even call themselves platforms, making a court case a slam dunk in any reasonable world) is simply offering a communications platform.
We already have laws that govern communications platforms, and we already have laws that differentiate between private communications (phones, mail, and email) and open public communications (radio, television).
There is absolutely nothing about facebook or twitter that qualifies as a 'publisher' in any conceptual way. A publisher produces hand picked content for the express purpose of print or broadcast... over a communications platform.
There should have been laws against selling personal information (the real business), regardless of uninformed, improperly explained, unenforceable 'consent' by button press, a long LONG time ago. But that really is a different fight altogether.
If they are ever classified as a publisher, for some stupid reason, I'd still be happy with that. We can all sue them for publishing our work without due compensation.
Youtube is a different story. Youtube allows monitization and compensation for content creators. This DOES make them a publisher. Since they are the SOLE publisher on their own platform, Youtube should be the target of an anti-trust lawsuit. They should allow other publishing companies, as well as other advertising agencies, access to their public platform. They have created a private monopoly by being both the sole owner of the communications platform, and the sole publisher on that platform.
Disney+ should be right up their with them. A publisher creating their own broadcasting medium so they can have exclusive publishing status. But hey, Netflix got away with turning a broadcast platform into a publishing platform, so they'd probably win that suit unless someone takes down netflix first.
Time and again we have watched these digital companies OPENLY circumvent century old monopoly laws without the slightest pushback from the people who are supposed to be enforcing those laws. It's one more reason to be pissed off at our failure of a government.
Not to mention the zero fucks given by we, the people. In general that is. There will always be too many sheep following the wolves for the rest of us to catch a break. More are waking up but too little too late I fear.
I completely understand what you're saying but I'd much rather Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit get ruled a public forum like they should be and all the censorship against legal speech and favoritism has to go away.
Either way, seems like it should be one way or the other legally speaking, but I find the publisher designation won't fix anything as far as free speech is concerned and I fear would make them even more controlled against the right side of the political spectrum. These companies are essentially monopolies there's no real adequate competition when you look at the numbers.
It's upsetting that despite all the evidence, they are still able to weasle out of lawsuits, both from public and Congress.
Congress should just vote and have them regulated until they can prove they are an open platform.
Or just convince people to use something else and let twatter fail.
I suspect after Trump leaves office in 2024, Twitter, along with most of the MSM, will go bankrupt and fail.
Sheeple gonna sheep. Never gonna change.
Spot on
Ah young padawan. Your statement is easily countered. May I?
They can be a platform and a publisher, do you wanna know why? Because of the simple fact that you are a racist.
Now allow me to continue whilst I eat my Chinese food and sip my Mongolian Soya bean latte from the very non diverse Mongolian Xibeasshoe mountain tribe of the Chinaisasshoe region, whilst I await my wife's return from her date with that creepy looking long legged Puerto Rican fellow. 5 years of marriage and I've managed one date with a recently transisioned woman who is about to get her penis removed. I didn't want to engage in any form of sexual activity with this amazing woman, as the size of her balls mixed with the sheer courage to forego such a heroic journey, were clearly bigger than mine. Plus I don't like dick. I've lost count of the amount of dates she's been on and nights, sometimes days, she is gone. But hey, I'm a cuck.
You are a racist because you think the virus came from China. And voted for Donald Trump so you deserve to be censored because of the hate and dividing nature of facts you perpetuate instead of succumbing to the simple fact that words hurt and hurt > facts. Instead of relying on facts you should be relying on not being a racist, transphobic, Berniephobic, homophobic, • insert label here, then highlight this instruction and press delete, to ensure suspicious folk are convinced otherwise •, misogynist, anti-socialism, bigot.
I would cite the articles of evidence and statistics to support me but for some reason all links from CNN and any YouTube videos containing the word CNN whether as a username or description are blocked and a prompt saying "CNN is fake news, fuck off faggot" appears on my screen and it freezes my Huawei phone, which my wife's last boyfriend, before she left with the long legged Puerto Rican man 3 days ago, gave to me to celebrate the conception of their child...
Fantastic lol
Lost it at, "You're a racist".
Lol