Musk actually buys Twitter.

[Megadeath]

It 100% is actionable. Twitter is a huge plataform, and they have gone on record before denying they did it.

This isn't like a TV station refusing to air political ads, that's true. But it is kinda like if you ordered a marketing company to mail 100k letters to people to get them to vote and they took your money and sent only 1k and the rest were printed and then burned.

Not to mention, like I said, Jack has gone on record multiple times on multiple courts saying this did not take place. He can claim "oh I wasn't aware" but that shit won't fly against the employees who DID know and did it.

It's nothing like that. In your "similar" example there's a contractual relationship, and a financial one. Both important elements that aren't the case here. Then there's a specific obligation under those relationships that is failed, rather than a general implied "obligation" for fairness from a private corporation. They are really nothing alike.

 

[Abhorsen]

It 100% is actionable. Twitter is a huge plataform, and they have gone on record before denying they did it.

This isn't like a TV station refusing to air political ads, that's true. But it is kinda like if you ordered a marketing company to mail 100k letters to people to get them to vote and they took your money and sent only 1k and the rest were printed and then burned.

Not to mention, like I said, Jack has gone on record multiple times on multiple courts saying this did not take place. He can claim "oh I wasn't aware" but that shit won't fly against the employees who DID know and did it.

This is not a legally accurate comparison.

You are legally allowed to lie, with very few exceptions. The thing with your analogy is your example is a failure to honor an agreement. That would be illegal. But not running political ads, or even just running political ads from only one side, is entirely legal.

As for the courts, he didn't say it in court (or in congress). It never got to court. And also that doesn't trickle down to employees unless they said it in court or congress.

 

[mrttao]

The law is enforced by people. The only question is, is there a majority of senators willing to persecute this. simple as.

 

[Terthna]

You are legally allowed to lie, with very few exceptions.

Which by itself goes a long way to explain why things are as bad as they are.

 

[Abhorsen]

Which by itself goes a long way to explain why things are as bad as they are.

No, it's honestly a good thing. The few exceptions are basically the proveable lies (lies about things that happened) that cause someone direct harm. The alternative is we have the government stepping in enforcing 'misinformation' laws.

 

[Terthna]

No, it's honestly a good thing. The few exceptions are basically the proveable lies (lies about things that happened) that cause someone direct harm. The alternative is we have the government stepping in enforcing 'misinformation' laws.

And how many times are those exceptions (which also include false advertising, by the way) actually enforced? Certainly not enough to discourage anyone from continuing to do it.

 

[Abhorsen]

And how many times are those exceptions (which also include false advertising, by the way) actually enforced? Certainly not enough to discourage anyone from continuing to do it.

That's not even my point. My point is that doing more is objectively an awful idea. Them not even enforcing what they have (which is mostly tort law, and so for civilians to sue, not the government) is movement in the opposite direction.

 

[LordSunhawk]

Actually it would be a very serious campaign finance violation, which *is* enforced. One-sided moderation of that nature in a forum which accepts political advertising would rise to the level of an in-kind donation...

 

[bintananth]

Actually it would be a very serious campaign finance violation, which *is* enforced. One-sided moderation of that nature in a forum which accepts political advertising would rise to the level of an in-kind donation...

Openly political ads also include a "paid for by <insert organization here> on behalf of <insert candidate/issue here>" as part of what gets sent.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Probably something along the lines of "literally fascist" and "hate speech isn't free speech." You know, the usual.

And they all deserve an ass whooping for it.

 

[Sobek]

Muskrat has been going gamer mode quite amusing to see

 

[DarthOne]

Oh, so that is why they hate Elon so much...

 

[DarthOne]

 

[Bacle]

 

[Sobek]

Game theory: Fauci openly ordered Twitter to enforce his word as gospel

 

[DarthOne]

Game theory: Fauci openly ordered Twitter to enforce his word as gospel

Not much of a theory. Or if he didn’t directly someone in the government did.

 

[Rocinante]

Not much of a theory. Or if he didn’t directly someone in the government did.

Game theory: Fauci openly ordered Twitter to enforce his word as gospel

I mean, it is entirely within the realm of possibility that the hyper leftists at Twitter decided all on their own to go full authoritarian censorship on everyone.

They are leftwing extremists after all. This is something they love doing. They don't need the government telling them to.

 

[strunkenwhite]

The law is enforced by people. The only question is, is there a majority of senators willing to persecute this. simple as.

Congressional persecution has a lower threshold to meet than prosecution.

 

[Abhorsen]

Twitter Files 5 is live.

 

[Agent23]

Musk goes after Klaus Kraut and the WEF, calls ESG a scam after Tesla is put out of ESG index.
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