GOP working on legislation to strip Twitter of federal liability protections

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Minneapolis declares state of emergency What's so crazy about all this, is that Trump, while trying to pass legislation against Twitter, is breaking the rules of engagement by Twitter, by promoting violence. Folks, you just can't make this shit up.

Oh, you mean THIS:

Do you, or does any at Twitter, have one honest bone your ******* carcasses?

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[BWK]

Minneapolis declares state of emergency What's so crazy about all this, is that Trump, while trying to pass legislation against Twitter, is breaking the rules of engagement by Twitter, by promoting violence. Folks, you just can't make this shit up.

Your link didn't show Trump promoting violence. Where are you getting that?

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Twitter seemed to think so. They sent him a warning.

 

[BWK]

Minneapolis declares state of emergency What's so crazy about all this, is that Trump, while trying to pass legislation against Twitter, is breaking the rules of engagement by Twitter, by promoting violence. Folks, you just can't make this shit up.

Oh, you mean THIS:

Do you, or does any at Twitter, have one honest bone your ******* carcasses?

.

When the looting starts, the shooting starts. You are a coward who left that part out. Lol! What a loser.

 

[BWK]

Twitter does not get to CLAIM something is a lie just because they don’t like it.

No, in the REAL WORLD, we base our statements on facts. You don't get to claim a lie is okay just because you like it. There is no justification for what he said.

And of course the point goes right over your TDS afflicted head. Twitter does not get to determine right or wrong. Period. Now about those tweets from leftists that are ALL proven lies, where are the “fact checkers” there? Seems your “facts” don’t stand up very well to any scrutiny.

They must, they hit Trump with a warning over promoting violence.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Getting hit with a tag saying that the tweet violates Twitters TOS isn't censoring him. All they said is that Trump's tweet went against their TOS, but because they believed it was in the public interest to see it, they allowed it to remain UNEDITED. Nope, sorry, a tag saying that Trump violated their TOS without editing his tweet isn't censorship, no matter how much your fevered little minds want to believe otherwise.

 

[BWK]

Minneapolis declares state of emergency What's so crazy about all this, is that Trump, while trying to pass legislation against Twitter, is breaking the rules of engagement by Twitter, by promoting violence. Folks, you just can't make this shit up.

Oh, you mean THIS:

Do you, or does any at Twitter, have one honest bone your ******* carcasses?

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Nope, you still keep leaving the other part out. You're a coward who runs from accountability. You're definitely a loser for sure.

 

[BWK]

Getting hit with a tag saying that the tweet violates Twitters TOS isn't censoring him. All they said is that Trump's tweet went against their TOS, but because they believed it was in the public interest to see it, they allowed it to remain UNEDITED. Nope, sorry, a tag saying that Trump violated their TOS without editing his tweet isn't censorship, no matter how much your fevered little minds want to believe otherwise.

Exactly! The warning is worth shit. Trump and twitter are for each other. They're like branch kin. Trump shits in the branch, and twitter laps it up.

 

[lantern2814]

Twitter does not get to CLAIM something is a lie just because they don’t like it.

No, in the REAL WORLD, we base our statements on facts. You don't get to claim a lie is okay just because you like it. There is no justification for what he said.

And of course the point goes right over your TDS afflicted head. Twitter does not get to determine right or wrong. Period. Now about those tweets from leftists that are ALL proven lies, where are the “fact checkers” there? Seems your “facts” don’t stand up very well to any scrutiny.

They must, they hit Trump with a warning over promoting violence.

Wrong again moron. That’s was not promoting violence. Just stating a fact. Since that was what happened. Notice the hypocrites didn’t remove or warn Kaepernick for encouraging the bombing of a police precinct. That was then torched. You have no arguments, no defense, and no hope.

 

[Dana7360]

"Sen. Josh (R-Mo.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday separately announced they were both working on legislation to strip Twitter of federal protections that ensure the company is not held liable for what is posted on its platform.

Both Hawley and Gaetz argued that Twitter’s decision to flag the tweets called its legal liability protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act into question. Section 230 protects social media platforms from facing lawsuits over what users post.

Hawley sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday questioning why the platform should be given Section 230 protections and tweeted that he would soon introduce legislation to end “government giveaways” under the legal shield.

“If @Twitter wants to editorialize & comment on users’ posts, it should be divested of its special status under federal law (Section 230) & forced to play by same rules as all other publishers”


IMO subsidies and / or government protections should not be given to companies that engage in trampling on Freedom of Speech. Yes, Twitter (and Facebook) is a privately owned and run company and can operate as they see fit ... but they can do so without tax dollars or protections from a government that supports and defends the Constitution which affords the right of Freedom of Speech to all Americans.

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Republicans working on legislation to strip Twitter of federal liability protections

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday separately announced they were both working on legislation to strip Twitter of federal protections that ensure the company&nb…

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Good luck with that.

If you think that some of the richest men in our nation are going to allow that to happen I have beautiful beach front property in Colorado to sell you cheap.

If you think that any legislation like that is going to pass our congress, well you're stupid enough to believe trump, britebart, gateway pundit and other so of course you're going to believe that legislation has any chance to get passed.

Have fun with that.

Here's a clue. The conservatives handed our government over to the rich and big business in the 80s.

Get back to me when that becomes law. Until then, it's meaningless.

 

[Dana7360]

Gaetz is virtue signaling. His little hissy fit has no chance at doing anything.

Second, if his bill did pass, the result would be the immediate removal of Trump from the platform.

The sole intention of this episode is to intimidate Twitter like the thugs they are.

Twitter didn't violate trump's free speech. He's free to post anything he wants. Twitter refuses to remove it and refuses to close his account.

That's supporting free speech. Not blocking it.

Twitter is using their right to free speech to put a tag on things that aren't true or violates their TOS rules.

Speaking out and posting truth or posting that something violates their rules is not violating anyone's right to free speech.

trump and the republicans are trying to violate Twitter's right to free speech. They are trying to rob Twitter of freely posting truths.

The people who are violating free speech here is trump and republicans. Only because Twitter had the audacity to stand up to lies and promoting violence.

I applaud Twitter and hope that this bullying by trump and republicans is totally ignored by Twitter.

I want trump and the republicans to stop using the government to take people's free speech rights from them.

 

[Dana7360]

Twitter is complying with public accommodation laws. trump has not lost his account. They most certainly are giving him their service. He's not being denied anything but being able to lie and violate their TOS rules without anyone doing anything about it. Putting a tag on his posts isn't violating any public accommodation laws.

Putting a tag on a post isn't violating anyone's free speech or use of the the service the company is providing.

All this is ridiculous.

trump has his panties in a twist because someone actually stood up to him. Someone actually didn't let him get away with lying through his teeth and promoting a video that calls for the only good democrat is a dead democrat.

No president should ever behave this way.

I cheer Twitter on. I hope they keep it up.

 

[Dana7360]

"First Amendment scholars said Friday morning that Mr. Trump and his allies had it backward and that he was the one trying to stifle speech that clashes with his own views.
“Fundamentally this dispute is about whether Twitter has the right to disagree with, criticize, and respond to the president,” said Jameel Jaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “Obviously, it does. It is remarkable and truly chilling that the president and his advisers seem to believe otherwise.”
Revoking Section 230 protections would expose Twitter and other online platforms to such expansive potential legal vulnerability that it would undermine the fundamentals of their businesses and perhaps make it untenable to continue in anything resembling the current system in which they provide online marketplaces of ideas where almost anything goes.
Paradoxically, it would also remove the very legal standard that has allowed Mr. Trump to use Twitter so effectively to communicate with his 80 million followers no matter how incendiary, false and even defamatory his messages may be."

Twitter Adds Warnings to Trump and White House Tweets, Fueling Tensions (Published 2020)

Twitter said the tweets, which implied that protesters in Minneapolis could be shot, glorified violence — the first time it had applied such warnings to any public figure’s posts.

www.nytimes.com

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IOW, he is meddling with the platform he most uses to tell lies on.

Those first amendment scholars have said what I've been saying all this time.

It's trump, his followers and republicans who are violating first amendment rights.

 

[BWK]

Twitter does not get to CLAIM something is a lie just because they don’t like it.

No, in the REAL WORLD, we base our statements on facts. You don't get to claim a lie is okay just because you like it. There is no justification for what he said.

And of course the point goes right over your TDS afflicted head. Twitter does not get to determine right or wrong. Period. Now about those tweets from leftists that are ALL proven lies, where are the “fact checkers” there? Seems your “facts” don’t stand up very well to any scrutiny.

They must, they hit Trump with a warning over promoting violence.

Wrong again moron. That’s was not promoting violence. Just stating a fact. Since that was what happened. Notice the hypocrites didn’t remove or warn Kaepernick for encouraging the bombing of a police precinct. That was then torched. You have no arguments, no defense, and no hope.

LOl! What does Kapernick have to do with Trump? Make sense man.

 

[BWK]

Gaetz is virtue signaling. His little hissy fit has no chance at doing anything.

Second, if his bill did pass, the result would be the immediate removal of Trump from the platform.

The sole intention of this episode is to intimidate Twitter like the thugs they are.

Twitter didn't violate trump's free speech. He's free to post anything he wants. Twitter refuses to remove it and refuses to close his account.

That's supporting free speech. Not blocking it.

Twitter is using their right to free speech to put a tag on things that aren't true or violates their TOS rules.

Speaking out and posting truth or posting that something violates their rules is not violating anyone's right to free speech.

trump and the republicans are trying to violate Twitter's right to free speech. They are trying to rob Twitter of freely posting truths.

The people who are violating free speech here is trump and republicans. Only because Twitter had the audacity to stand up to lies and promoting violence.

I applaud Twitter and hope that this bullying by trump and republicans is totally ignored by Twitter.

I want trump and the republicans to stop using the government to take people's free speech rights from them.

Trump got caught lying, and Twitter exercised its free speech. Trump can't handle the truth. His truth, which happens to be all lies, is all that matters to him and his supporters.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know what the really sad thing is? Trump supporters cannot be bothered to see what is really happening, all they can do is parrot what Trump tells them to, repeating it endlessly. Trump said he was being censored on Twitter when they put a tag on his tweets, and his supporters are blindly saying the same thing.

It's starting to seem that words don't mean what they used to, as Trump and his supporters are continually twisting things around to support their views.

 

[BWK]

You know what the really sad thing is? Trump supporters cannot be bothered to see what is really happening, all they can do is parrot what Trump tells them to, repeating it endlessly. Trump said he was being censored on Twitter when they put a tag on his tweets, and his supporters are blindly saying the same thing.

It's starting to seem that words don't mean what they used to, as Trump and his supporters are continually twisting things around to support their views.

Truth has no meaning, and whatever Trump says is the gospel. These people are lost in their own minds. Nothing you can do. They are gone.

 

[lantern2814]

Twitter does not get to CLAIM something is a lie just because they don’t like it.

No, in the REAL WORLD, we base our statements on facts. You don't get to claim a lie is okay just because you like it. There is no justification for what he said.

And of course the point goes right over your TDS afflicted head. Twitter does not get to determine right or wrong. Period. Now about those tweets from leftists that are ALL proven lies, where are the “fact checkers” there? Seems your “facts” don’t stand up very well to any scrutiny.

They must, they hit Trump with a warning over promoting violence.

Wrong again moron. That’s was not promoting violence. Just stating a fact. Since that was what happened. Notice the hypocrites didn’t remove or warn Kaepernick for encouraging the bombing of a police precinct. That was then torched. You have no arguments, no defense, and no hope.

LOl! What does Kapernick have to do with Trump? Make sense man.

Hey stupid, they both used the SAME platform. Twitter. One tagged , the other was not. Or is that too much for your grade school dropout brain to handle?

 

[BWK]

Twitter does not get to CLAIM something is a lie just because they don’t like it.

No, in the REAL WORLD, we base our statements on facts. You don't get to claim a lie is okay just because you like it. There is no justification for what he said.

And of course the point goes right over your TDS afflicted head. Twitter does not get to determine right or wrong. Period. Now about those tweets from leftists that are ALL proven lies, where are the “fact checkers” there? Seems your “facts” don’t stand up very well to any scrutiny.

They must, they hit Trump with a warning over promoting violence.

Wrong again moron. That’s was not promoting violence. Just stating a fact. Since that was what happened. Notice the hypocrites didn’t remove or warn Kaepernick for encouraging the bombing of a police precinct. That was then torched. You have no arguments, no defense, and no hope.

LOl! What does Kapernick have to do with Trump? Make sense man.

Hey stupid, they both used the SAME platform. Twitter. One tagged , the other was not. Or is that too much for your grade school dropout brain to handle?

As always you never make sense, and you certainly can't tell the truth. Your link about Kapernick encouraging bombing a police precinct is where?

 

[BWK]

LOl! Still waiting on Lantern to fix this lie of his.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

No one demanding Trump quit Twitter (not an insignificant number of conservatives have that opinion too) has any threat of force.

this is what happens when you run out of tv argument, first you pretend ["no one demanding trump quit twitter"] and then you contradict that very claim by claiming ["not an insignificant number of conservatives have the same opinion"]...now you must either ignore that contradiction and hope it goes away or torture bot logic and the truth to try and make that square peg fit in the round hole.