Twitter and Musk

Overnight said:
Exactly. A private company is not beholden to the Constitution of the US. (COTUS)
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But the U.S. government is.

And while, the facts need to be developed and be established, there are troublesome allegations with increasing supporting evidence that the Department of Justice of was using its powers to influence both Twitter and Facebook to make decisions that were helpful to the Clinton campaign.

I am not going to try the case here. Things are still in progress but even without getting to Twitter, Zuckerberg directly testified under oath before Congress that they were in regular contact with the Justice Department which was telling them that the Hunter Laptop was bogus Russian disinformation. EXCEPT......there is a pantload of evidence, and growing every day that the Justice Department knew it was legit and that they had also used their powers backchannel to get CNN, The Washington Post, the New York Times etc to repeat the mantra that it was Russian disinformation.

MORE TO COME.
 
El OchoCinco said:
Social media content guidelines have nothing to do.with a law....if you own it you run it
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You are correct, but that wasn't my point. Musk storms in like he's all for free speech and then bans a guy for exercising his free speech. Censorship or free speech, one or the other, there is no door #3.
 
CaptainObvious said:
You are correct, but that wasn't my point. Musk storms in like he's all for free speech and then bans a guy for exercising his free speech. Censorship or free speech, one or the other, there is no door #3.
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There definitely is if you're trying to run a company. Local & state obscenity clauses/law run counter to free speech all the time and it's a given in private enterprise.

Though I get you can't brand yourself as a "free speech absolutist warrior to allow it to go unfettered" on your platform and then do a 180 not even a month in.
 
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Cuddles said:
There definitely is if you're trying to run a company. Local & state obscenity clauses/law run counter to free speech all the time and it's a given in private enterprise.

Though I get you can't brand yourself as a "free speech absolutist warrior to allow it to go unfettered" on your platform and then do a 180 not even a month in.
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This is true. My orginal post was just to make the point that Musk is not the free speech cowboy in the white hat he was claiming to be. At the end of the day it's about the money, as per usual. He will probably be able to level the playing field somewhat with the obvious political bias Twitter has shown, but people will find another way to game the system. The powers that be will always be trying to sway voter sentiment. That is their primary job. Everything else runs a distant second, if given any consideration at all.
 
That's what this guy said, Geeber, lol.
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CaptainObvious said:
This is true. My orginal post was just to make the point that Musk is not the free speech cowboy in the white hat he was claiming to be. At the end of the day it's about the money, as per usual. He will probably be able to level the playing field somewhat with the obvious political bias Twitter has shown, but people will find another way to game the system. The powers that be will always be trying to sway voter sentiment. That is their primary job. Everything else runs a distant second, if given any consideration at all.
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I've said as much:

Cuddles said:
Disagree completely. Musk's shown his politics, has seen the value of moving the mob, has backed his DeSantian horse and more than likely will engineer the platform to sway elections that favor his interests. There's the value in he platform, putting in power a party that cuts taxes and subsidizes industries/companies they favor
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