*** The Official MAGAposting thread ***

[Mr.Banana]

Hey banana, what if... bear with me... what if twitter is
the christian baker.

dun dun dun!

Just in case you're serious, here's the answer. Actually I'd like to give two answers.

First is...Sure! Have it your way. Let's say Twitter is exercising it's free speech by censoring/banning whatever people/voices/opinions it chooses. Is that the point you were trying to make? I love it. LET'S DO THAT. Now Twitter "owns" every tweet that it leaves up. Now they're a publisher and not a platform. Now they are responsible for what they publish. Awesome. Let's live in that world, please.

Now the second answer....the one for the real world....the one where still pretend twitter is a platform.

I get that Twitter is a private company, it can set it's own standards of conduct, and it can discipline people for violating those standards as it sees fit. Fine. Fair enough. And if they have a little bit of a political bias, society can tolerate it to a certain degree. They have to fill a 24 hour news cycle somehow.

But we are at the point where Twitter is big enough that it's necessary for full competitive access to the marketplace. So it has enormous power over just about everything. And what they are doing is selectively censoring voices along ideological and political lines on a large scale.

That violates about a zillion campaign finance and election interference laws. and frankly it's fucking dangerous. Call me a hypocrite if you want but I'm not about to sacrifice democracy on the altar of free speech, all so twitter's stock price can go up a quarter of a fucking point. No thanks.

And the coordination between twitter, google, amazon, apple, and facebook is illegal. they're monopolies engaging in anti-comeptitive behavior. But who would prosecute them? You saw what happened to the congresspeople who objected to the election. They're legally allowed to do that. Free speech and whatnot. But all of their corporate donors bailed, publicly. They're done. They'll never get elected to anything again because the corporations that choose our leaders have decided to excommunicate them.

So who the fuck is gonna have the balls to prosecute an anti-trust case against Twitter?

Oskar, I hope you realize how toxic your question is.

[oskar]

...And what they are doing is selectively censoring voices along ideological and political lines on a large scale.

That violates about a zillion campaign finance and election interference laws. and frankly it's fucking dangerous. Call me a hypocrite if you want but I'm not about to sacrifice democracy on the altar of free speech, all so twitter's stock price can go up a quarter of a fucking point. No thanks.

You're acting like people are getting banned for conservative ideology. Trump didn't get banned because he was arguing against austerity politics. Trump got banned because he was deliberately spreading disinformation and encouraging violence, which is against twitter's TOS. If those are part of your political platform (like ldo they are) then bad luck.

Maybe try not losing so hard next time and your side can influence political discourse again.