[HN Gopher] Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Soci...
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       Florida Steps Up to Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law;
       It's Terrible
        
       Author : danaris
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-06-28 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | jaz2130 wrote:
       | "When a private company says take your content elsewhere, no
       | one's First Amendment rights are violated."
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       | I think the concern is moreso regarding massive corporations like
       | Facebook and Twitter working together in lockstep to remove
       | people from their platform that they ideologically disagree with,
       | thus preventing them from reaching their audience.
       | 
       | If Twitter wants to curate which people are allowed to post, then
       | they are a publisher and should be regulated as such. That also
       | means that they need to be held responsible for everything on
       | their platform that they _don't_ remove.
        
       | ipspam wrote:
       | Maybe it's a fine article, but I didn't make it past "imagined
       | anti-conservative bias"
        
         | Tehchops wrote:
         | It is imagined. The bias is against hate-speech and restricting
         | the real, actual rights of others from discrimination and bias.
         | 
         | If the conservative platform has devolved to dog-whistling or
         | outright hate speech, calling for interstate armed conflict
         | etc... then yea it's gonna seem like an "anti-conservative"
         | bias.
         | 
         | Since you didn't make it past that part, I'll save you the
         | trouble. The case so laughably lacks legal merit it's already a
         | joke.
        
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