Cernovich on Twitter: "Twitters admin panel has a button to “blacklist trends.” So yeah twitter lied, they manually edit trends. The ones advocating violence are kept up. By their choice. They aren’t a platform. They are a publisher. Abolish Section 230."

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    [–]King_Brutus 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

    Right, it doesn't need to be abolished. Twitter just needs to define themselves as a publisher since they very clearly are not a platform anymore.

    [–]Dragonerne 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

    Section 230 protects internet sites from the publisher/platform distinction. This is why they can do anything they want.

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      [–]King_Brutus 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      At a certain point you can't build your own twitter. Regulation has to take a role when companies become too large to compete against.

      [–]Dragonerne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      But only if they meet certain criteria, which they are currently not meeting.

      Please quote which parts of section 230 they are not meeting.

      A better choice though is to build your own twitter instead of relying on government to wipe out companies you don't like.

      That's not an option. The free market is a lie.

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        [–]Dragonerne 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Someone else answered the question. On top of that, I have a family and I don't want them dead.

        [–]Extract 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        We already got our own twitter - www.gab.com, which managed to thrive despite being deplatformed everywhere and blacklisted by the duopoly of the credit card companies.

        On the other hand, twitter, who wasn't facing those hardles, can thrive much more despite clearly violating government regulations (by being a publisher yet not registering as one, for starts).
        Taking it down would be akin to the judge at the marathon banning the clearly doping front runner, giving the 2nd place its well deserved win.

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

        no, twitter already has defined themselves as a publisher. they need to be prosecuted for all content on their site