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Re: Elon Musk will probably reinstate Trump,

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JanPB wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 11:16:37 AM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote:
> > If Elon Musk wants to 'PROVE' he is running Twitter, all he has to do is reinstate Donald Trump's Twitter account.
> 
> Twitter and Facebook should have become regulated companies years ago.
> That's how e.g. AT&T operated pre-1984 in the US. They had the monopoly
> over long-distance telephone calls but they could not censor because the
> government regulation includes the adherence to the US Constitution.
> The result was that as an AT&T user, you were guaranteed a dial tone on
> your telephone, no matter what your political activity or persuasion was,
> as long as you paid your bills on time.
> 
> Twitter and Facebook OTOH were left to their own devices and their
> CEOs, even assuming they were well-intentioned, found themselves
> caving in to the prevailing political wind. Incidentally, despite the
> claims one frequently hears defending Twitter and Facebook along
> the lines of: "they are private companies so they can do what they
> want"; so those claims are actually false. The law and the precedents
> established by the Supreme Court (e.g., Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan,
> 1963) make it illegal even for a *private* company to censor on request
> of the government (as happened numerous times in the past, most
> recently Jen Psaki during a WH press conference has crossed that
> legal line).
> 
> It's going to be interesting where this thing ends up eventually,
> legally speaking. Of course, Musk has just thrown a nice spanner in
> the works.
> 
> --
> Jan

My understanding is already a lot are quitting twitter. I guess they
must be
those bias moderaterators. (all moderators are biased) 



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