That’s what Congress did by enacting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so.
The 1st Amendment, independent from §230, gives companies a general license to remove postings that it finds “otherwise objectionable”.
To bring a libel suit, a plaintiff must show that the defendant published an untrue, damaging statement about them. Twitter said that the NY Post violated the Twitter Rules, which is neither false nor defamatory.
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The c-word
Surely the banned c-word is charisma-uniqueness-nerve-talent?
/div>Re: Re: Re: Re:
Glem didn't do any research. He just took Parler's word for it:
It's also not true. A number of Parler users have been arrested, among them Troy Smocks, Jake Angeli, and Nick Ochs.
/div>Liability for what?
Liability for what? Who's the injured party?
/div>Re: Re: False premise
That won't stop them.
Look at Brexit: same thing happened, did it anyway.
/div>Re: Dorsey has recently stated that Twitter is NOT a publisher,
They get to post on web-sites.
/div>Re: otherwise objectionable
The 1st Amendment, independent from §230, gives companies a general license to remove postings that it finds “otherwise objectionable”.
To bring a libel suit, a plaintiff must show that the defendant published an untrue, damaging statement about them. Twitter said that the NY Post violated the Twitter Rules, which is neither false nor defamatory.
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