[–] 24041226? [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
No. Platform are protected by the government while censoring content they don't like: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
(c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
(2)Civil liabilityNo provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
[–] 24041260? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Exactly, good Samaritan protection for actions taken in good faith. Random banning people who violated no openly stated rule is clearly the act of a publisher curating content it disagrees with.
Twitter must stop acting in bad faith or it loses protections granted to platforms.
[–] 24041277? [S] 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
How do you know they act in bad faith? Is the government now deciding who acts in bad faith? There's no random banning on Twitter. Only banning of bad people.