airplanemechanic
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Yeah, God forbid we stop the President from broadcasting bullshit lies about Democrats. How unAmerican.That could be characterized as interference with the American political process.
As long as they stop liberal rags from posting lies about Trump.
Oh yea, they're not doing that.
I heard a great analogy today. Twitter is like the phone company. They might own the servers and such, but they don't own the right to tell you what to say on it. The phone company owns the wires, the phone lines, the switchboards, etc but they have no right to dictate what you say while using their equipment.
Yeah they do. It's like a newspaper. They have the right to publish or not publish something. Now, once you have the newspaper in your hand you can wipe your arse with it for all I care. However, being a digital platform they can do what the fuck they want. They can even ban Trump if they want to. It's their platform. A telephone company can tell you to fuck off too.
Then they won't be afforded the legal protections of the act of 1996 part 230 which states that they are simply a platform and they have no say so in what goes on it thus can't be held liable for it. Once they start editing stuff then they are now editors and are like you said, a newspaper which IS liable for things said on its site.