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• Apr 15, 2021 @ 10:00am

  The c-word

  on The Pillow Dude's 'Free Speech' Social Media Website Will Moderate 'Swear Words' Because Of Course It Will

  Surely the banned c-word is charisma-uniqueness-nerve-talent?

• Jan 16, 2021 @ 03:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  on A Few More Thoughts On The Total Deplatforming Of Parler & Infrastructure Content Moderation

  [Greenwald] did some research and claims there is no evidence that the assault on Capitol Hill was organized through Parler.

  Glem didn't do any research. He just took Parler's word for it:

  a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler.

  It's also not true. A number of Parler users have been arrested, among them Troy Smocks, Jake Angeli, and Nick Ochs.

• Jan 15, 2021 @ 07:32pm

  Liability for what?

  on Ridiculous: Yale Law Prof Argues That Because Some In Congress Want More Moderation, That Makes Twitter A State Actor

  That’s what Congress did by enacting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so.

  Liability for what? Who's the injured party?

• Dec 29, 2020 @ 08:43am

  Re: Re: False premise

  on Coalition Of Internet Companies Who Are Decidedly Not 'Big Tech' Raise Their Voices About The Importance Of Section 230

  They decided to repeal 230 but can not agree on how to repeal 230.

  That won't stop them. Look at Brexit: same thing happened, did it anyway.

• Nov 21, 2020 @ 10:59am

  Re: Dorsey has recently stated that Twitter is NOT a publisher,

  on White House Offers To Allow Renaming Confederate Bases… In Exchange For Getting Rid Of Section 230

  what does The Public get in exchange for the grant of immunity to mere web-site hosts?

  They get to post on web-sites.

• Oct 30, 2020 @ 07:31am

  Re: otherwise objectionable

  on Free Market Advocate Switches Sides, Calls For Direct Government Interference In Online Moderation Decisions

  The 1st Amendment, independent from §230, gives companies a general license to remove postings that it finds “otherwise objectionable”. To bring a libel suit, a plaintiff must show that the defendant published an untrue, damaging statement about them. Twitter said that the NY Post violated the Twitter Rules, which is neither false nor defamatory.