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***Official Political Discussion Thread***
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For a lawyer, you certainly can't read between the lines.
Are these the people who were gonna vote for a second step act?
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Lmaoooooooooo
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In the Age of Social Media, Expand the Reach of the First Amendment
In the Age of Social Media, Expand the Reach of the First Amendment
The time has come for the First Amendment to be extended to cover powerful private social media entities such as Facebook and Twitter that can limit, control, and censor speech.www.americanbar.org
This is a good article that outlines the argument. Only for very large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Read the article and disagree with it. People voluntarily sign up for social media platforms as well as agree to their terms and conditions. So I don't know how one can argue that an individual should be able to do or say what they want on a persons privately owned platform. No, a private business shouldn't be able refuse service to an individual based on their skin color or sexual orientation. The difference between the two is that, Trump is banned because he broke the social media platforms rules that he agreed to, no other reason. With that said, Trumps 1st amendment rights were not violated at all. He deliberately spewed false information and incited violence. I am not a lawyer or anything, but I am sure twitter had to protect themselves from legal action in all of this as well.
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This is what he siad.
They must have had someone monitoring the POTUS page, knowing he would do this nonsense.
They must have had someone monitoring the POTUS page, knowing he would do this nonsense.
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It’s just like when ninja got banned 
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Thus the white on white war will begin.
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It's sad that Trump didn't go out by posting pornography.
That's how we know he's not an NTer.
That's how we know he's not an NTer.
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Trump knows US secrets too. Time to just take him out back to play ball with Jesus
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Imagine him leaking a sex tape w Ted Cruz’ wife? Lmao
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He should record himself typing a tweet and post it on YouTube
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Broadly speaking, I’m sympathetic to argument that Federal, State and local officials should respect the spirit of the Bill of rights and that if that means constraining private sector actors and or spending tax payers dollars, so be it. The right to privacy should include constraints on your employer. The right to legal counsel should include a very well funded public defender’s office.
Unfortunately, the folks who want blanket immunity for Trump’s posting do not actually believe in an expanded and radically reimagined bill of rights. Stop saying it’s about expanding the 1st amendment.
Unfortunately, the folks who want blanket immunity for Trump’s posting do not actually believe in an expanded and radically reimagined bill of rights. Stop saying it’s about expanding the 1st amendment.
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never would i thought he'd go out like this 
(not him being a ***** *** *****, but everyone/everything turning their backs on him)
(not him being a ***** *** *****, but everyone/everything turning their backs on him)
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Yeah but idiots keep posting about it anyway so he still got his point across. People don’t know how to dead something
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I completely agree his Tweets violate their terms of service and I agree they should suspend/ban his Twitter. But there are literally despots who post propaganda on there all day.
Regimes and people who slaughter people for being gay, political opposition, etc. That tweet I posted from the official website of the Chinese embassy in the US, posted how putting a million Muslims in concentration camps is good for them.
They let those accounts stay up but they ban Trump’s. You can’t have it both ways and be selectively outraged. I despise Trump with a passion but there are a lot worse actors out there who are allowed to roam Twitter freely.
It’s playing right into his narrative of being targeted and he has a point. Did Twitter do the right thing? Yes but they can’t be selectively outraged
TLDR
- clean up the entire platform
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He shoulda went to ig live
edit: it brings me great joy to know how miserable him and his family are right now.
edit: it brings me great joy to know how miserable him and his family are right now.
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That's how the curtain closes for a dumpster fire.never would i thought he'd go out like this
Back away like that homer simpson gif
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Hillary Clinton is somewhere in upstate New York laughing her *** off right now
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Yea, Trump's dangerous rhetoric to the extent it incited that outrageous conduct at the capitol certainly isn't protected even if the 1st amendment expanded to large social media platforms.
I am speaking more to the broad issue as it relates to the very large platforms like twitter and facebook and the scope of their powers. It is certainly going to be interesting to see this area of the law develop.
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