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Twitter.com is not a public square. It’s a private property and they can kick your ass off whenever they feel like it, for any reason.
by esotericimpl 6y ago
Twitter.com is not a public square. It’s a private property and they can kick your ass off whenever they feel like it, for any reason.
- RonanTheGrey 6y agoYou know perfectly well that that's not a satisfying argument to what I said. Try again. And, you're wrong by the way. Courts have already ruled more than once that it is, which is why Trump's account still exists.
- deepakhj 6y agoYou're wrong by the way. Trump's account exists because Twitter makes money off of him.
- jedmeyers 6y agoAre you aware of the term "public easement"? In many jurisdictions you are not able to block public access to your "private property" once the public gets accustomed to accessing that property. Same thing should apply here. You don't get to just open your private property for everyone to use and then close it for people you don't like politically many years later.
- notherthrowaway 6y agoTwitter has a terms of service that you must agree to before using. These aren’t the same thing.
- RonanTheGrey 6y agoTwitter has already, on several occasions, been forced by the courts on "public square" grounds to take actions Twitter didn't want to for political reasons. You're looking at the leaf on the tree and assuring everyone you see the forest.
- DeonPenny 6y agoSection 203 made them a public square because unlike the private property who would be liable for whats done on that land twitter gets a pass. And its looking more and more like they shouldn't. And if that happens twitter wont exist.