Twitter files

@wildgrass said
The government called in the tip. But the thought police are twitter employees, policy makers, and executives, a private publicly traded company, making decisions. It seems you are making an argument against capitalism.

You'd be wrong if that is what you think.

@mott-the-hoople said
oh he has been following, just lying like a dog

Come on. Lying about what? This isn't alternative facts. We can all see it. It's been tweeted.

@kellyjay said
You'd be wrong if that is what you think.

Govt did not make decisions at twitter. That is clear from twitter files.

@wildgrass said
Govt did not make decisions at twitter. That is clear from twitter files.

No, they simply said what they wanted to be done, Twitter made the decisions.

@kellyjay said
No, they simply said what they wanted to be done, Twitter made the decisions.

Right. Just like farming, energy, research, banking, whatever darn industry you can think of.

@wildgrass said
Right. Just like farming, energy, research, banking, whatever darn industry you can think of.

LOL…not quiet…it is a constitutional violation for a govt official to even attempt to suppress someones free speech

@mott-the-hoople said
LOL…not quiet…it is a constitutional violation for a govt official to even attempt to suppress someones free speech

Social media user policies ban miscellaneous constitutionally protected speech (depending on the website). e.g. hate speech, explicit racism, without government involvement. But that's legal because there's no constitutionally protected right to tweet (at least according to the courts). These places are considered private forums. The fact remains that a company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from government removing access.

One thing that I thought was potentially lawbreaking in the twitter files has not been discussed at all in this thread. There was one part where the CIA was running propaganda through twitter's website and wanted LESS oversight on monitoring/censoring/banning those accounts. In other words, they wanted twitter to ignore content produced by them that may violate their user policies. I'd hope that type of behavior was in fact illegal.

@mott-the-hoople said
LOL…not quiet…it is a constitutional violation for a govt official to even attempt to suppress someones free speech

No it’s not.
Unless it’s free speech criticising the government. Then it’s a violation.

Sweet Jesus. How many times does this have to be explained to you people?

@mott-the-hoople said
LOL…not quiet…it is a constitutional violation for a govt official to even attempt to suppress someones free speech

It’s a good job they didn’t then, if only you right wingers could stop lying.
Is it a constitutional violation to attempt to corrupt a presidential election by coercing election officials to find non existent votes in your favour 🤔