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2021-02-18 at 5:29 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
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2021-02-18 at 5:28 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.Governments don't create freedoms, they define them by having the power to deny them. Or something. You were always free to speak. Government had the power to stop you. A wise government decided to take that power away from themselves. Twitter hasn't decided the same.
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2021-02-18 at 5:26 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
Originally posted by Antifa Member This is retarded.
Freedom of speech is just the right to say what you want in public without interference from the government. That is the definition of free speech. Not Bob infringing your rights, not Sally, just the government.
Private property =/= public space.
Websites = private property.
It's really that simple. You don't have the right to go into someone's private property and say whatever the fuck you want. Certainly not when it is criminal or against their terms of service. The argument you are talking about with the communications industry is not a free speech issue. It is a labeling issue. The USA addressed this in title V of the telecommunications act of 1996. Websites are not publishers of their content. In 2019 the Supreme court voted that the first amendment doesn't apply to private platforms.
There's really no argument to be had. Nobody in their right mind thinks twitter and facebook should just let you post whatever you want without curation. Maybe some retarded anarchists but most sane people understand that this would ruin the quality and usability of these platforms. Would probably be overrun by bots and influencers (not the instagram type).
So I'm curious where this argument ends for you? Should you be able to post whatever the fuck you want online? Are websites merely nothing more than a vessel? Should they not be able to delete posts, and suspend and ban users? Should that be illegal for them to do?
And if so, should it be illegal for a brick and mortar business to be able to kick you out?
See, the current system is really the only way any of this work.
tldr: Twitter is not infringing on your freedom of speech you fucking morons.
It's not an infringement of your legally protected 'right' to freedom of speech, but it does infringe on the freedom of speech. It's a pretty simple distinction. Twitter should take inspiration from the wisdom of the founding fathers and prevent themselves from abridging the speech of their users. They won't, and the government can't force them to, but they could do more to protect their users ability to speak on their platform. Twitter could give people the right to say what they want on their private property. They don't. Therefore they choose to infringe on people's freedom of speech. 🤷 -
2021-02-18 at 4:19 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.Something can be a free speech issue without being a first amendment issue.
Just saying, freedom of speech is a principle and an ideal. The first amendment's defense of that freedom from the government is not the all encompassing definition of "freedom of speech". Your freedom of speech can be infringed upon by organizations other than congress. The extent to which corporations - especially those in the communications industry - should be expected to value freedom of speech as a principle is an important conversation. -
2021-02-18 at 4:02 PM UTC in I am now automatically blocking all of InfinityShocks past and future alts
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2021-02-18 at 6:43 AM UTC in LANNY Will you Tell DTE To Stop Harrassing me
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2021-02-18 at 5:12 AM UTC in rush limbaugh death celebration threadNEIL PEART JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE
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2021-02-18 at 4:46 AM UTC in LANNY Will you Tell DTE To Stop Harrassing meEnter is in jail for attempt murder on a female coworker.
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2021-02-18 at 4:32 AM UTC in There's a lady on Fox who just said Biden was president during the capitol riots and nobody corrected her
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2021-02-18 at 3:46 AM UTC in rush limbaugh death celebration thread
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2021-02-18 at 12:33 AM UTC in I hate dope smokersAddiction is bad. Drugs are great though. Just don't be an addict. It's not that hard, you fucking hippies.
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2021-02-17 at 6:55 AM UTC in Tx lol
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2021-02-17 at 4:51 AM UTC in Tx lolHaha I genuinely thought this was just gonna be the annual "southern US state crippled for a day by inch of snow" story, where we bitter snow-dwellers get to laugh at the people who laughed at us for complaining about the heat in summer. Texas doesn't do anything small I guess.
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2021-02-17 at 1:34 AM UTC in SpaceX Starship SN9 High-Altitude Flight TestOMG ELON
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2021-02-16 at 11:03 PM UTC in $200
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2021-02-16 at 2:21 PM UTC in Homopolar motor
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2021-02-16 at 2:07 PM UTC in Homopolar motor
Originally posted by Sophie I'm going to dox you, then take all info from your social media, make accounts which will have the exact same username/handle, well, it will appear that way at least because i will use homoglyphs instead of non printable characters, and then i will start sending all your contacts CP. How about that?
Oh fuck. Shit's getting real, Lanny! -
2021-02-16 at 1:40 PM UTC in $200
Originally posted by Antifa Member It helps if you have enough to save in the first place. You're bad with money because you've never really had any. I mean, what's the most you've ever had? You ever save 5k?
I've definitely had windfalls in that ballpark, but they evaporated. It all evaporates. Money evaporates. It's what it does. My bank account is a low pressure environment and money naturally vaporizes and drifts off. -
2021-02-16 at 1:13 PM UTC in Do you ever get the feeling that people in your life don't want you to succeed?
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2021-02-16 at 1:12 PM UTC in Do you ever get the feeling that people in your life don't want you to succeed?ok warioat i did a grafffique desine wut u fink
