Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:09:30 -0500 Message-ID: <624F28FB.6D71@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:10:03 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Organization: The Starmaker Organization X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Elon Musk will probably reinstate Trump, References: <624BBCB8.4E5A@ix.netcom.com> <624CC4E6.4F52@ix.netcom.com> <624DD919.179A@ix.netcom.com> <0cb40f41-3a0f-45fe-a1f9-5720bbd36010n@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220406-4, 04/06/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 43 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-iaKsS9GM/JWsO/VwcVoRte8we/bfzbaYFAiM+NCF+s0dZn7mUZ3KEB8otVFJOzX6TQMelyQvCrfHzjJ!J3VLW2JrladI9ENAKZokd/pzKMPSUU45/77oge1lCUzOnXd4spadmcDXLea31MfotXGcCJdcVekN!6TpscdpyPnI= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3261 Xref: csiph.com alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:2537255 sci.physics:849551 sci.physics.relativity:582139 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) -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.