Care to elaborate? Twitter can choose whoever they want to communicate on their platform. Just as you can choose whom you allow to communicate with you.
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Care to elaborate? Twitter can choose whoever they want to communicate on their platform. Just as you can choose whom you allow to communicate with you.
What's there to elaborate? JC Capital had a right to free speech. That's it. It's an individual entity, it has the fundamental right to say whatever it wants providing it didn't commit any crimes or bring upon any serious harm. Twitter had no right to block it. We are not living in Communist China here where what you post can be deleted by Weibo (the equivalent of Twitter) at will just because... What Twitter has done with Trump and now with JC Capital is setting up seriously dangerous precedents.
Twitter is a public venue where people's messages are broadcast for the world to see not just on some private bulletin so Twitter owes a public duty to all to ensure that messages written by the writer are properly broadcast without modification or interference in any way unless the messages itself is of a seriously harmful nature. That's its job??!!! Otherwise it's called censorship and honestly Twitter, a private corporation is not entitled to make up its own censorship laws/rules that's beyond what is guaranteed to all of us by the US Constitution, the ultimate Supreme bodies of law. Any laws or rules that run contrary to the US Constitution is supposed to be run by Congress, studied, debated and approved by the Congress, the official lawmaker body. Twitter is not above the law here.
You still don't get it. It's twitter's platform. They kick out or restrict someone's speech on their own platform at any time they choose. Twitter is a product that is given out for free and can be taken away any time. Will you also sue Google if Google decides to shut down your email account but not the one of others?
You seem to confuse public speech with comments or opinions on a private company's servers. Of course can Twitter or Google or any other company wipe any content it wants at any time. It's their property. Just because you fell for the freebee trick does not mean you suddenly own their product or have a right to dictate how they run their company. Can you specify exactly what law twitter violated?
You seem to confuse public speech with comments or opinions on a private company's servers. Of course can Twitter or Google or any other company wipe any content it wants at any time. It's their property. Just because you fell for the freebee trick does not mean you suddenly own their product or have a right to dictate how they run their company. Can you specify exactly what law twitter violated?
What's there to elaborate? JC Capital had a right to free speech. That's it. It's an individual entity, it has the fundamental right to say whatever it wants providing it didn't commit any crimes or bring upon any serious harm. Twitter had no right to block it. We are not living in Communist China here where what you post can be deleted by Weibo (the equivalent of Twitter) at will just because... What Twitter has done with Trump and now with JC Capital is setting up seriously dangerous precedents.
Twitter is a public venue where people's messages are broadcast for the world to see not just on some private bulletin so Twitter owes a public duty to all to ensure that messages written by the writer are properly broadcast without modification or interference in any way unless the messages itself is of a seriously harmful nature. That's its job??!!! Otherwise it's called censorship and honestly Twitter, a private corporation is not entitled to make up its own censorship laws/rules that's beyond what is guaranteed to all of us by the US Constitution, the ultimate Supreme bodies of law. Any laws or rules that run contrary to the US Constitution is supposed to be run by Congress, studied, debated and approved by the Congress, the official lawmaker body. Twitter is not above the law here.
You still don't get it. It's twitter's platform. They kick out or restrict someone's speech on their own platform at any time they choose. Twitter is a product that is given out for free and can be taken away any time. Will you also sue Google if Google decides to shut down your email account but not the one of others?
It's twitter's platform but it serves a public purpose. If it's someone coming to my private house then I have the right to do whatever I want, invite them in or kick them out because my private house is my private domain and is not open to the public and does not serve any public purposes. Twitter's open to the public; it's open to the whole wide world. Twitter doesn't get to make the call to decide who it gets to silence and who it lets to speak when everybody has the fundamental right guaranteed by the US Constitution to speak their mind. Whether its service contains any cost is irrelevant. Just because you are a private company doesn't give one the right to do whatever it wants unchecked. Nobody is above the law.
And to answer your question, yes I would sue Google if it shut down my email account and violated my fundamental right that's guaranteed to me by the Constitution which is one of the most important reason why I choose to live in North America is because I can be FREE!! Otherwise I would just go live in China or some other even more restrictive countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran. It's not like US is the richest country in the world in all aspects.
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While I laud your feelings and opinions you remain dead wrong and there is no law in the United States that supports your claims. Rest assured I sympathize with your concerns but Twitter is legally allowed to do whatever it pleases with its platform. I have nothing else to add to that. I recommend you put your political animosities aside and accept the facts. And please don't act like an idiot and say something is unlawful but can't cite a single law that would apply.
It's twitter's platform but it serves a public purpose. If it's someone coming to my private house then I have the right to do whatever I want, invite them in or kick them out because my private house is my private domain and is not open to the public and does not serve any public purposes. Twitter's open to the public; it's open to the whole wide world. Twitter doesn't get to make the call to decide who it gets to silence and who it lets to speak when everybody has the fundamental right guaranteed by the US Constitution to speak their mind. Whether its service contains any cost is irrelevant. Just because you are a private company doesn't give one the right to do whatever it wants unchecked. Nobody is above the law.
And to answer your question, yes I would sue Google if it shut down my email account and violated my fundamental right that's guaranteed to me by the Constitution which is one of the most important reason why I choose to live in North America is because I can be FREE!! Otherwise I would just go live in China or some other even more restrictive countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran. It's not like US is the richest country in the world in all aspects.
While I laud your feelings and opinions you remain dead wrong and there is no law in the United States that supports your claims.
Yes there is. It's called the US Constitution.
Twitter is legally allowed to do whatever it pleases with its platform.
No they are not. They are only being allowed to do what they have done because nobody is challenging them in a court of law. Laws are not written in stone especially the application of them. And they evolve over time.
I recommend you put your political animosities aside and accept the facts. And please don't act like an idiot and say something is unlawful but can't cite a single law that would apply.
It has nothing to do with political animosity. It was what Twitter did to JC Capital that made me feel that Twitter has gone too far. JC Capital is neither a political party nor a political figure. It is just an investment research firm that wanted to publish their findings about a fraudulent company to warn others and they were abruptly silenced by Twitter by unjustfied reasons. This is no different from Weibo in China (the equivalent of Twitter) deleting posts of whistleblowers and liberal thinkers. It's just so incredulous that something that I thought would never happen in United States, the model of the free world actually did.
I have nothing else to add to that.
Don't add anything.