Trump threatens to 'strongly regulate' or 'close down' social media platforms after Twitter fact check

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

Lol, THEY ARE PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. This is setting a precedent. Find alternatives and build them, like saidit, don't have big daddy government sign treasonous laws to help government censor more easily. Two edged sword.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

yea... I'll be happily surprised if this doesn't actually hurt the small guys like saidit instead of the so-called targets who have tons of lawyers and lobbyists to protect themselves with. Sounds like the beginning of the internet crackdown to me.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Saidit censors just the obvious things like CP and incitement of violence towards other people..So, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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

but anything can be construed as political censorship by a bored lawyer... and the suit doesn't need to be won to kill the site

its not like this didn't happen plenty of times before congress introduced the bill that gave web sites immunity.. just look at all the people on reddit who think getting voted down is "censorship".