Twitter Hides POTUS Tweet

Jean Lafitte 1812 said:
For people saying it's congress that needs to change CDA 230, they've been trying for years on a bipartisan basis. SESTA/FOSTA already makes unconstitutionally broad exceptions for "sex trafficking" including consensual sex work and even just personal ads. Craigslist nuked their personals section because they could be held liable for everything posted there.

As for the EARN IT act, this is literally a push for that by Trump in his normally theatrical way. Barr has wanted it for a while since he'd be the final arbiter of the new protections, the little council that Barr was "ordered" to set up has existed for months, and there's been heavy pushes from both sides to do something about 230.

Long-term there's no way intermediary liability survives SCOTUS. They were 9-0 in Manhattan News Network being allowed to kick out whoever they wanted because it was MNN's 1st amendment right to decide what to host. The only dissent was on whether MNN was a government actor, which the conservatives decided that they weren't. But it'll be 10 years where the only websites with limited user content are YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter because they're big enough to comply with the revised law.
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Dont fool yourself, EARN IT is bipartisan effort. Diane Feinstein is a cosponsor.

 
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Coh said:
No shit you should be mad when a fucking platform for public discourse and interaction for the masses prevents you from doing that AS A FUCKING PUBLIC OFFICIAL, especially when you are required to do so by law. It's not an issue of Democrat or Republican. It's an issue of a fucking company preventing you from doing your fucking job you absolute bellend. If it were some Democratic President saying the same thing on a conservative platform, I would be just as pissed. This shouldn't be grounds for repealing 230, but it ought to be grounds to rework it for the modern era, because it clearly didn't have social media and the like in mind when it was made 20+ years ago.
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How did they prevent him from doing so? He violated their TOS, and thus, they removed the tweet, just as they would anyone else.
 
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If I might offer advice to everyone: Wait and see.

So far, all Trump has done is throw a gauntlet down, but whether it's picked up, survives legal muster, anything comes of it, or if this is a bunch of sound and fury signifying nothing long-term has yet to be determined.

When we know if this is going to amount to more than political dickwaving, then it's prudent to panic. Until then, I urge calm and sanity should prevail.
 
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Well, I was right, Twitter doubled down and tagged a tweet claiming it glorified violence, while leaving actual violence glorification alone. Trump likes kicking hornet's nests because the stings feel good and fuels him. I doubt cares enough to follow through, though he probably also doesn't care enough if it does. It might be my bias, but by now I don't think there is anybody out there thinking "this time, Trump as gone too far", but he is highlighting media's hypocrisy and people are getting tired of that.

I gravitated here because of decades of heavy handed moderation on other forums that always skewed one way, and it's only gotten worse throughout the years. If it keeps evolving as it is, what kind of place is the internet going to be where only one sides opinion is allowed? How long is it going to be before "abortion is murder" is considered hate speech, while "fetuses are just a clump of cells" is called scientifically accurate? Because that's an issue that I'm starting to see percolate.

I have some ideas that might help protect small forums, yet hold large forums accountable, but I don't know if it's technically workable. One, if it can be reasonably demonstrated that a site has an overwhelming influence, it must act as either a public platform, no moderation accept what is illegal, or a publication if it want's to editorialize. No picking a choosing. You could say it's unfair to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, but then again, they have an "unfair" amount of traffic to influence public opinion. Two, sites that want to editorialize, they have to either pay the users or users pay the site. Free sites get to keep their platform status. I don't know how workable that is, but money talks, and either you pay to have your safe space, or a site pays you for your attention. Maybe ideology should become a "protected class", so you can't discriminate because of a person's opinion, but then we've come full circle to the idea of freedom of speech.
 
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GethN7 said:
If I might offer advice to everyone: Wait and see.

So far, all Trump has done is throw a gauntlet down, but whether it's picked up, survives legal muster, anything comes of it, or if this is a bunch of sound and fury signifying nothing long-term has yet to be determined.

When we know if this is going to amount to more than political dickwaving, then it's prudent to panic. Until then, I urge calm and sanity should prevail.
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How is that gonna get me likes on twitter?
 
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Null said:
EARN IT is just as bad. There's no fucking point dealing with this shit anymore.
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people with power don't like the idea of not being able to control what people can say or hear
fernstein tried passing a bill some years ago that limit freedom of press to government approved entities
 
Coh said:
The tweet is literally fucking unavailable to some people you retarded nonce.
It's at timestamp 5:38
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I see you can't read, you troglodyte. I said they removed it because it violated their TOS (promoted violence). Spend less time circlejerking it to Trump and more time reading
 
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