Twitter should be able to make whatever rules they want as long as it isn't discriminatory as a private business, and no, I do not think it discriminatory to block blatant lies.
So you're an example of what I was talking about.
If Twitter has the right to do that, they also have the right to ignore such problems (and often do), perpetuating vast volumes of suffering with their arbitrary policing.
I see their ignoring of it more of a problem than them actually holding everyone to the same rules. Twitter constantly allowing Trump to flout rules is part of the problem.
I'm an example of what, precisely? " Elites trying to make everyone else shut up"? No, because dissenting opinions are not the problem, lying, OTOH is.
And you are okay with Twitter being in control of what information (or disinformation) gets heard and what information doesn't by saying "it's a private business", correct?
And by your argument here they will still have the power to do that. It’s their platform, they can apply their rules their way.
An example of the impulse to entrust the regulation of what views are allowed to flourish to our ruling economic elites.
We had people dying due to disinformation because they believed the New York Times about Iraq having a clandestine nuclear program.
And Twitter can help people lie to you and squelch voices who may not.
NYT was just repeating what US intelligence stated. The people were believing US intelligence, not the NYT. The way we resolve issues like that is by actually implementing government accountability, which currently we do not have. If our officials, agencies, appointed or elected actually had to live by the same rules as everyone else and were held accountable by the same laws, we could put an end to that sort of BS, but since they do not, what does it matter?
Thanks to corporations being free to make their own rules as to what information and speech they want to promote and what they want to censor.
Are you a Congresswoman or a Senator? Do you vote on bills? No?
Ok. So they don’t have to deal with disinformation. So Facebook can kill as many people as they want.
They do have to still abide by the laws and they still can be sued for failing to do so. Sandy Hook truthers and those giving them a platform, for example, have been ordered cease and deist by the courts as well. When people get hurt, they then have grounds to sue and the courts can order them to stop as well. Facebook cannot kill as many people as they want, they can still be held liable for damages.
Lil, would you still believe Twitter should be able to police their platform as they see fit if they were censoring pro-democrat news but letting pro-republican news through?They do have to still abide by the laws and they still can be sued for failing to do so. Sandy Hook truthers and those giving them a platform, for example, have been ordered cease and deist by the courts as well. When people get hurt, they then have grounds to sue and the courts can order them to stop as well. Facebook cannot kill as many people as they want, they can still be held liable for damages.
It is just a matter of time before the US has to catch up with other nation's privacy and disinformation laws, for example:
It is just a matter of time though before we pretty much have international guidelines on this that most nations follow, we are just in that gap in between before they are created is all.About the Law Library | Law Library of Congress | Research Centers | Library of Congress
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And which neither economic elites nor the government that serves them want.
Something tells me your estimation of 'disinformation' has nothing to do with whether something is true.
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I don't know, but I'm quite skeptical that Biden would get even that done. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/joe-biden-public-option-single-payer-health-company-donations
And squelching "disinformation" and replacing it with actual disinformation doesn't.
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Nobody. No more Twitter. No mods no masters.
It isn't about being "pro whatever". Like I said, I feel the same way if they were trying tp publicize Ivanka's emails here. I don't want to see Ivanka's personal emails saying she was introducing whoever to her daddy either. It isn't about the party, it is about it being an invasion of privacy to post someone's emails in the first place. If it isn't something with serious public ramifications like what Snowden did, there really is no place for it. I see it as no different than stealing someone's private photos, letters, or rummaging through their panty drawer. It isn't something that should be encouraged.
Well if the Goths are the government and we are Hot Topic, that's reality that's genuinely what it's like to live under Capitalism.
Revnak's world.
Your solution is to genuinely do absolutely nothing about the problem
Revnak's world.
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