re: Poll: should Facebook, Twitter, etc be allowed to ban people for political speech?

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Why not???

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Either you’re an editor and a publisher, or you’re not. If you’re an editor and publisher, you’re responsible for what you post. I can sue the NYT if they slander me. I can’t sue a company that doesn’t take responsibility for its content

Yes. I have not yet heard the compelling legal argument to get big gov involved.

Conservative by choice repub by necessity.

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Poll: should Facebook, Twitter, etc be allowed to ban people for political speech?

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They should be allowed to ban people for content but with serious repercussions.

Basically, if you start to censor views, you become a publisher instead of a platform and lose DMCA copyright safe harbor protections.

So if a user posts something that infringes copyright, you can be immediately sued. No more getting notification and having a chance to remove it before being sued. Also, you have to keep track of numbers of views of infringing content.

If you don't censor, you remain a platform and continue to get safe harbor protections.

So they can censor if they want, but the financial incentive is probably enough to keep them from doing so.

If they’re going to ban political speech from 1 side, they should just ban all political speech as a policy.

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They do have it both ways, because they set the rules and people voluntarily agree to them

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People reading the websites do not. Only people that post on the websites. Same issue for the NYT, Washington Post, etc. Publisher rules protect readers and those that are discussed in the published material

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The admins ban for things like being overtly racist

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Could easily be considered "political speech you don't agree with".

I’m a conservative! They can ban whoever they want, it’s a free country and a free market. More laws are a bad thing, not a good thing. Get off social media and you’ll find there’s a whole real life that exist out there that is so much better.
Liberals love social media bc they can’t handle the real world, if you’re a conservative or a libertarian you’ve proven through life that you can handle the real world. Let liberals have their fake world and go focus on exercise and family.

You think the admins here would ban you for that? If you said it yourself?

Conservative-leaning libertarian. Yes, they are private companies and should have that right. Alternatives can and are arising (4Chan, WhatsApp, etc.)

Also, I’m not sure the general public knows this, but the tech sector is much less liberal than people think. Sure, the business managers and corporate types are uber-leftists, but deep in the belly of the beast, the predominantly male white or Asian engineers/coders are over 50% conservative/libertarian, with what I would estimate to be about another 20% who would call themselves centrists or non-political. Many of us are growing increasingly angry over the loss of the laid-back/anything goes/just keep inventing breezy culture of the 90s/2000s. Many are being passed up for promotions by inferior engineers in the name of diversity, and the grip of the HR feminazi types is becoming unbearable despite all the awesome perks/salaries.

I say all this because people shouldn’t be surprised in the near future when a tidal wave of disaffected employees (the useful ones) start leaving the mega-corp.’s of the world just to experience the freedom of a startup or consulting gig again, and when that happens companies like Facebook and Google will have to move fast to stay on top of the mountain. Think James Damore at Google- the media would love to portray him as a one-off racist/sexist, but he’s actually in the majority of employees, at least amongst the tech types.

Source: I’m an engineer at Mega-Corp USA

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