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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    absolutely without merit.. the issue is equal enforcement
    LOL at "scientific fact" describing political speech!
    equal enforcement?

    So when I invite people over for dinner, I am the law and must treat everyone the same?

    we just making these rules up as we go or what?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Twitter is a private company that can do whatever it wants on its platform.

    If you don't like it, LEAVE.

    That's the "free market".

    You seem really upset that Twitter is fact-checking and flagging Trump's tweets. Almost as if you need them not to do that in order to enter your bad faith into the public discourse.

    What a fucking crybaby.
    garbage.
    reliant solely on the stale "private property" over-used response and ignoring the issues of speech and regs

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    Twitter has once again taken action against President Trump, this time censoring a tweet for "glorifying violence" in his late-night response to the ongoing violence in Minneapolis.

    Trump said he couldn't not just watch the city be overwhelmed by the unrest over the death of George Floyd.

    “I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted. “A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.



    Critics on Twitter said Trump's comments had racial undertones and said the term "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" can be traced back to Miami Police Chief Walter Headley in 1967 as a threat to black protestors during the civil rights movement.

    When asked for comment, Twitter pointed to a thread explaining the decision.

    "This Tweet violates our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today," Twitter Comms wrote. "We've taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the Tweet given its relevance to ongoing matters of public importance."
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twi...ifies-violence

    A private business cannot censor anybody. Trump has no right to use twitter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    garbage.
    reliant solely on the stale "private property" over-used response and ignoring the issues of speech and regs
    Watching liars realize the "free market" cuts both ways is really a lot of fun for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zymurgy View Post
    equal enforcement?

    So when I invite people over for dinner, I am the law and must treat everyone the same?

    we just making these rules up as we go or what?
    lol..if Twitter is censoring/fact checking/editorializing /take your pick / in an uneven manner that's grounds to remove Section 230 protection.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Watching liars realize the "free market" cuts both ways is really a lot of fun for me.
    you should stop worrying about being a commie, and start worrying about equal protection

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    you should stop worrying about being a commie, and start worrying about equal protection
    Trump can still tweet all he wants; and Twitter has their First Amendment rights too.

    Of course, if it upsets him that much, he can just quit Twitter. He doesn't have a right to a Twitter account, just like you don't have a right to multiple JPP accounts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    lol..if Twitter is censoring/fact checking/editorializing /take your pick / in an uneven manner that's grounds to remove Section 230 protection.
    If I invite a group to dinner - I can tell one guy to shut up - and kick him out of my house if he refuses

    what you have against private property?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Watching liars realize the "free market" cuts both ways is really a lot of fun for me.
    funny how right wing capitalists don't understand the concept of private property

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Trump can still tweet all he wants; and Twitter has their First Amendment rights too.

    Of course, if it upsets him that much, he can just quit Twitter. He doesn't have a right to a Twitter account, just like you don't have a right to multiple JPP accounts.
    THE ISSUE IS UNEVEN ENFORCEMENT, and PROTECTIONS from 230

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    Quote Originally Posted by zymurgy View Post
    If I invite a group to dinner - I can tell one guy to shut up - and kick him out of my house if he refuses

    what you have against private property?
    are you a social media platform? publisher?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    THE ISSUE IS UNEVEN ENFORCEMENT, and PROTECTIONS from 230
    Stop being a crybaby.

    If you don't like it, you're free to leave. He can start his own Twitter...he can call it Twitler and then you and all his fellow liars can sit in a circle and jerk each other off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jacksonsprat22 View Post
    funny how right wing capitalists don't understand the concept of private property
    Conservatives only embrace capitalism and the free market when it benefits them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    are you a social media platform? publisher?
    who do my property rights end when I have a virtual dinner party? I have a significant expense - and it is my property

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Conservatives only embrace capitalism and the free market when it benefits them.

    Exactly.

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