Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

[domalino]

How do they ban it?

It's a US based company. The free speech provisions of the First Amendment prevent federal, state, and local governments from directly censoring the Internet (except in extreme circumstances, for instance content that directly leads to the harm of children).

Again, people really need to get their head around the simple fact that anything and everything that the current board of twitter has banned, got banned because it was making Twitter legally liable.

The USA has section 230 which protects them from most stuff, but the USA is only 1/5th of twitters audience and not the one it wants to grow.

If it doesn’t moderate itself, it will get banned in the EU, India and Japan.

The key thing about section 230 however is that the more action twitter takes to moderate the more it becomes responsible for the stuff that is left there.

So by making themselves acceptable to the world outside the US, they lose their protections to not act inside the US.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Again, people really need to get their head around the simple fact that anything and everything that the current board of twitter has banned, got banned because it was making Twitter legally liable.

The USA has section 230 which protects them from most stuff, but the USA is only 1/5th of twitters audience and not the one it wants to grow.

If it doesn’t moderate itself, it will get banned in the EU, India and Japan.

I think the main reason Twitter moderates its content for is protection against civil litigation.

Self-moderation barely ever really works in the way it is intended.

 

[JRockBlues]

Said he wants transparency and free speech and the fact the lefty woke brigade have lost their shit shows they don’t like transparency and free speech

 

[bluemc1]

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if someone is talking shit you don’t have to listen to it if you don’t want, think that’s what the block button is for tbh

can’t see how him blocking someone has anything to do with free speech, he’s not stopping anyone else hearing what they’ve got to say just doesn’t want to hear it himself

the fact the tweet thinks there’s any comparison says more about the person tweeting tbf

 

[JRockBlues]

if someone is talking shit you don’t have to listen to it if you don’t want, think that’s what the block button is for tbh

can’t see how him blocking someone has anything to do with free speech, he’s not stopping anyone else hearing what they’ve got to say just doesn’t want to hear it himself

the fact the tweet thinks there’s any comparison says more about the person tweeting tbf

Well if it were just an individual's account then I would probably agree with you but as this is the official account for an organisation called Public Citizen then I think it's a bit different.

Who they are:

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power and work to ensure that government works for the people – not for big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Well if it were just an individual's account then I would probably agree with you but as this is the official account for an organisation called Public Citizen then I think it's a bit different.

Who they are:

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power and work to ensure that government works for the people – not for big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country.

The guy can be a turd sometimes.

 

[bluemc1]

Well if it were just an individual's account then I would probably agree with you but as this is the official account for an organisation called Public Citizen then I think it's a bit different.

Who they are:

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power and work to ensure that government works for the people – not for big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country.

it’s nothing to do with free speech though is it, he’s no cancelling anyone or trying to stop them being heard he just doesn’t want to hear what they’ve got to say

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

it’s nothing to do with free speech though is it, he’s no cancelling anyone or trying to stop them being heard he just doesn’t want to hear what they’ve got to say

Trump can't block Twitter followers, federal judge says

A lawsuit was filed in July 2017 by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and seven plaintiffs who had been blocked by Trump.

www.cnbc.com

Presumably Elon Musk will be taking role of CEO or chairman?

Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey: I've Never Blocked Anyone

Twitter founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey insists his social media platform does not censor user content, despite suspicion suggesting otherwise. “Absolutely not,” he told “Today’s” Matt Lauer during an interview Friday. “Twitter has always been about controls. People can follow whoever...

www.nbcmiami.com

 

[JRockBlues]

Looking likely that this whole thread won't matter anymore with Musk set to withdraw his bid:

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Am I the only person who has never had an issue with saying whatever I want, whenever I want?

I'm often amazed at the number of people who feel that they are unable to express themselves openly. I wonder what it is that they feel like they can't share and what the repercussions would be. That must be a stifling existence.

I doubt Musk's ownership would bring anything more than some surface level changes but I'd hope what he'd bring would be a level of comfort to these people in order to get their views in the open.

That is, as long as this isn't another PR exercise.