DBA
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Conservatives should censor themselves. Normal people don't have a problem stating their views without running afoul of the rules. If you can't be a conservative without violent or racist rhetoric or dangerous lies then that's a problem with your ideology.
Any speech that is not in line with the left if considered racist and dangerous. I don’t agree with affirmative action policies. I think they are the epitome of reverse racism. Facebook could sensor me if they wanted for that.
Facebook can sensor who they like, but if so, they cannot be afforded section 230 protection. They want their cake and be able to eat it too.
It is not legal for Facebook to censor who they like.
They can only legally censor based on what could be harmful to the rights of others.
Just because no one is prosecuting Facebook, does not mean its legal.
You have no "rights" on Facebook outside of those they grant.
Nonsense.
Facebook owns nothing and maintains nothing.
Facebook is using the internet, so then is required to follow the fair use regulations established for the internet.
You have the same rights of fair use of Facebook as Blacks do at a lunch counter in Alabama.
No one open to the public can legally discriminate.
You have rights everywhere that everyone has to abide by.
If a customer at a counter starts cussing out other customers they can be booted.
That may be true, but it would not then be arbitrary, but in defense of their business to not be harmed by one customer chasing away others.
Facebook will argue that deleting lies is not arbitrary either.
And that would be extremely easy to counter as lies from both sides are not deleted. How many lies were posted about Trump on Facebook? My God, where to start.
It's their call, not yours.
Not if they are afforded Section 230 protection.
File a lawsuit.
Courts have held that Section 230 prevents you from being held liable even if you exercise the usual prerogative of publishers to edit the material you publish.
Section 230 Protections
Except that any edits must be done in good faith. Good faith means “ a sincere belief of motive without malice or the desire to defraud others.” That point is extremely debatable as clearly there is a motive and malice towards Trump and Republicans in general.