Is it only wrong when the government does it? We may find out.
One party complains the Internet walled gardens censor too much. The other complains they censor too little.
But the real issue is they shouldn’t have this kind of power in the first place. Collusion, abuse of monopoly power… lawsuits!
Oh, and midterms are coming up. If you interfere with other people’s attempts to influence elections, is that interference in elections?
Also…
Short of an outright rebellion, you can’t change the system from within. But this is close to outright rebellion. And now there’s pressure from outside.
What it all might mean at a memetic/spiritual level:
Blocking disinformation ain’t censorship, it’s called protecting the integrity of your platform.
Looks like the ol’ playbook may have hit a snag. As I’ve said before, twitter has plenty of legal maneuvering room to defend what they’re doing, they know their way around the law a lot better than the lie spreaders.
They’re definitely not interested in bending the knee to serve a political agenda, kudos to them.
Republicans threaten twitter because twitter won’t promote lies.
Twitter is ready legally with one of many outs, because they’re prepared.
Republicans press, twitter says see you in court if you like.
Once election hits, Republicans won’t be so interested anymore.
Like I said, after election is over, this ‘principle’ Republicans are pretending to care about will be dropped.
When all is said and done, leading up to election, they will continue to fail to use twitter to promote disinformation. All that really matters, to keep the election clean of this rubbish.
Catch me in 2 weeks and see if any Republicans care about this, in terms of bothering to actually do anything. Of course if the shoe was on the other foot, they would demand twitter remove these election tampering efforts immediately!
Most people don’t care about it at all already. They understand the concept of a starbucks opening their bathrooms for use, then banning customers who smear their poop all over its walls.
You would think after Bernie Sanders (for the second time) those on the left would catch on censorship is not limited to the right. Some of them like Jimmy Dore have.