Katie Hopkins suspended from Twitter

FogBlueInSanFran said:
They have far, far, far, far less power to edit and censor the views that are put forth through them than any media distribution platform known in the history of the human race. Not only that, they've chosen that very hands-off editorial policy as part of their way to grow both contributions and eyeballs exponentially.

This argument is quite literally 180 degrees wrong.
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The reason they have such a hands off approach is because they want to be recognised as distributors, not publishers, in case section 230 gets revoked and internet publishers become responsible for the defamation on their sites.

This is the great irony of Trump's war with twitter, where he keeps threatening to kill section 230 so people can't say mean things about him, but if he did, Twitter would have to remove almost every tweet he's ever made.
 
Ric said:
I’m fucked if anything like that ever happens over here.
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You and every forum, social media site, search engine and ISP.

230 is called the rule that created the internet...no one sensible wants to get rid of it.

Twitter moving towards censoring hate speech and manipulated media should be a sign they feel pretty safe about it despite the President's threats.
 
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