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re: SCOTUS: Public officials can be held liable for blocking critics on social media
Posted on 3/16/24 at 6:04 am to POTUS2024
Posted on 3/16/24 at 6:04 am to POTUS2024
Need to do news and journalists next. My local network will hide or remove comments it doesn’t like. They’ll sure asf push the AP agenda and receive govt money.
Posted on 3/16/24 at 7:00 am to JimEverett
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That reasoning might apply if the private social media company banned or restricted speech but in these cases it is the government official banning users.
Banning them via the private outlet.
If a constituent goes into a private establishment, say a restaurant, and yells at a politician, the pol can't ask the restaurant to escort them out?
Posted on 3/16/24 at 7:01 am to POTUS2024
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This is like saying that if you go into a town square and use a megaphone to broadcast your message, that it's no longer public.
The public forum referenced is a public forum, though.
You're not allowed to set up shop inside a private business and scream your message.
Posted on 3/16/24 at 7:03 am to GusAU
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This endorsement is all I need to see (without even reading the details) to know that the ruling is a very good one.
When the ruling against Trump came out, MAGA was very upset and I agreed with them. Sorry for being consistent
Posted on 3/16/24 at 7:30 am to SlowFlowPro
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These are private companies and private networks and should be governed by their contracts not government intervention
They aren't regulating the platforms.
They are regulating government officials' use of the platforms. That's a pretty big difference.
If I use the U.S. Mail Service to commit a crime and I am arrested for it, the U.S. Mail Service isn't being regulated. I'm being arrested for using it to commit a crime.
This post was edited on 3/16/24 at 7:33 am
Posted on 3/16/24 at 7:54 am to wackatimesthree
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They aren't regulating the platforms.
By preventing users from engaging in their contractual relationship with the platforms, the government is.
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They are regulating government officials' use of the platforms.
Which is a regulation of the platform.
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If I use the U.S. Mail Service to commit a crime and I am arrested for it, the U.S. Mail Service isn't being regulated.
A crime is inapplicable as that is already a violation of the contractual TOS between company and user.
Users having the contractual right to block followers is part of the TOS between private parties.
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
What elected official has gone to a restaurant and conducted government business in the way the officials did in the cases at issue?
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:55 pm to SlowFlowPro
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SlowFlowPro
I love the fact that it pisses off worthless ambulance chasers like you. It’s crap like you why this country is currently in shambles. You people and your ilk are worthless.
Posted on 3/16/24 at 1:04 pm to 31TIGERS
He has joined the "elite" group of HHTDS and IBChinaman of "did not read, downvoted out of principle".
Posted on 3/16/24 at 1:07 pm to SlowFlowPro
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This is a terrible ruling, but, Mandie Landry can suck it for me schooling her on this precedent year ago (on Facebook of all places).
These are both correct rulings. You’re just too stupid to understand the difference between personal and work.
Posted on 3/16/24 at 1:23 pm to GoldenGuy
Public officials should be held to a higher level of accountability. They should not be able to freely spread false information without being fact checked and corrected on the same forum where they made the original statement.
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