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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (36 children)

I never said one positive thing about this post. My eyeballs do see government employees indirectly asking twitter to censor constitutionally protected speech.

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

Wow, which constitution? I would love to read which constitution says that private corporations can't make private rules about speech.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (34 children)

government employees

you shill

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (33 children)

You wrote

asking twitter to censor constitutionally protected speech.

Twitter can control what's on their platform without first amendment considerations.

And it wasn't censorship - it was policy reviews of content, which unless someone can demonstrate otherwise, twitter would have taken down anyway if they found it independently.

It was a glorified version of "report this tweet".

It wasn't censorship. There are no 1A considerations for "report this tweet". Government employees weren't pushing the button to remove content.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (32 children)

Government employees weren't pushing the button to remove content.

It doesn't matter, they ordered the removal, which is outside of their job duties and thus illegal.

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (31 children)

No they didn't, they reported a tweet for policy review.

See, it seems like you're still confused after we had a long conversation and reviewed a lot of the evidence.

We didn't see any evidence of ordered removal and we didn't see anyone acting outside their job duties, did we. Where have you seen anyone ordering removal or acting outside their job duties?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (30 children)

It's clearly outside of their responsibilities and I hope it ends up in court. I hope DHS is censured for this shit too: https://thepostmillennial.com/dhs-leaks-starting-in-2020-dhs-began-meeting-with-twitter-facebook-wikipedia-and-more-monthly-to-coordinate-content-moderation-efforts

Obama legalized propaganda but not censorship.

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (29 children)

That's different from the Taibi story. I didn't realise we were on another topic, another lie.

Hey please look at this. I live in Texas.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/

I have a vested interest in misinformation groups NOT causing violence and civil disturbance.

I would like my elected officials to also try and ensure that misingo groups don't cause violence and civil disturbance.

How do elected officials prevent what happened in Houston from happening again? By doing exactly what your link says they shouldn't do.

Look, if you think a govt dept is overstepping its bounds, do a foi request or write to your congressman. We don't live in Iran. You could actually check and get answers instead of relying on fake news liars

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (28 children)

Pass a law that says you are my daddy and can control my speech then. This is the last free country on earth, and we will defend it with our lives.

the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (27 children)

We dont need to pass that law, because there already exists a legal framework to deal with what happened in Houston. That's what the dumb article you linked me to was about.

And unless you're part of an organised persistent threat, I don't think DHS is controlling your speech. Does it feel like DHS is controlling your speech? Why were you able to link me to a dumb article about dhs if they're controlling your speech