Elon Musk comes to agreement to acquire Twitter.

I am glad you brought section 230 up. Let's stick with Dominion example.  You see the devil is in the details. They aren't liable for the speech per say.  But what happens is they get sued so they can be subpoenaed to reveal the real identity of the people spreading defamatory content which causes Twitter to spend a lot of money as they often have to produce records of related accounts and so on.

 

In the past whenever a user caused the problem they had a set of rules to go by so they could suspend the accounts that are likely to get them hauled into court.  Twitter can also be sued under theories that they are monetizing/profiting from illegal or unlawful content. What do you think happened to Backpage? 

 

Then you have all of their upstream providers to worry about. If any of Twitter's upstream providers have terms of use that are more restrictive than their own, they have to comply with those terms if they want to keep using that upstream provider.

Edited on Apr 29, 2022 8:37am

Wanna see something hilarious?   Go over to the "Questions to the Staff" forum on this website where you'll see all of our conservative champions of free speech begging the moderators to cancel Kevin Lewis.

“For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

 

—John F. Kennedy

 

From the days when Democrats loved free speech.

Edited on Apr 29, 2022 7:29am
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh

Wanna see something hilarious?   Go over to the "Questions to the Staff" forum on this website where you'll see all of our conservative champions of free speech begging the moderators to cancel Kevin Lewis.


Because Twitter censoring and banning the NY Post for breaking the Hunter Biden Laptop story is just like Kevin Lewis fantasizing about ramming a hot poker up David Millier's ass.  I'm all for even allowing Kevins violent sexual fantasies long as LVA says there's no rules here.  But that's not what they said.  They said 'no insults or you'll be banned'.  You can't make this shit up.


Originally posted by: Mark

I am glad you brought section 230 up. Let's stick with Dominion example.  You see the devil is in the details. They aren't liable for the speech per say.  But what happens is they get sued so they can be subpoenaed to reveal the real identity of the people spreading defamatory content which causes Twitter to spend a lot of money as the often have to produce records of related accounts and so on. In the past whenever a user caused the problem the had a set of rules to go by so they could suspend the accounts that are likely to them hauled into court.  Twitter can also be sued under theories that they are monetizing/profiting from illegal or unlawful content. What do you think happened to Backpage? 

 

Then you have all of their upstream providers to worry about. If any of Twitter's upstream providers have terms of use that are more restrictive than theirs, they have to comply with those terms if they want to keep using that upstream provider.


Somehow I don't think you're really concerned about how much Musk will be spending of producing records for defamation lawsuits.  Maybe he'll require blue checks and identity verification. 

 

And there's a big difference between not allowing illegal or unlawful content and disallowing certain opinions and especially disallowing a major news story by falsely labeling it 'Russian Disinformation'.  I'm sorry you can't see the differences.

Originally posted by: Charles

Because Twitter censoring and banning the NY Post for breaking the Hunter Biden Laptop story is just like Kevin Lewis fantasizing about ramming a hot poker up David Millier's ass.  I'm all for even allowing Kevins violent sexual fantasies long as LVA says there's no rules here.  But that's not what they said.  They said 'no insults or you'll be banned'.  You can't make this shit up.


Becasue LVA having rules on their forum is honkey-dorey but Twitter doing the same thing is a violation of Charles' pecious free speech.

 

You cant make that kind of hypocrisy up

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