Freedom of speech means absolutely nothing if it does not include the freedom to be wrong. Censorship is a slippery slope. The antidote to a bad argument is a better argument, not silencing, cancelling, or labeling them.
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Replying to @AshkanAliabadi @vyodaiken and
Are you all right with someone yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater? (there is no fire)
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Replying to @maxmare @AshkanAliabadi and
That analogy comes from an authoritarian Supreme Court ruling where they held it was constitutional for the government to prevent people from handing out anti-draft pamphlets. Then, as now, people use irrelevant analogies as this in their attempts to silence legitimate speech.
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Replying to @cmuratori @maxmare and
That ruling was later overturned, because it was clearly not in keeping with the ideals of the First Amendment.
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It has been a long, difficult road of court cases trying to find the right balance. We do not need Twitter et al to come on the scene for ten years and then decide they know better than the entire history of American jurisprudence.
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Replying to @cmuratori @maxmare and
Twitter is not a government agency. They are not making speech illegal. They are not bound by the 1st Amendment. They are attempting, poorly, to enforce their terms of service and act responsibly.
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Replying to @vyodaiken @cmuratori and
If you don't know that the 1st Amendment is about GOVERNMENT prohibition of speech and that is different from a private company policing terms of service, then maybe you should sit this one out.
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Replying to @vyodaiken @maxmare and
Actually, we don't know that yet. Which of course _you_ would know if you listened more instead of being an 24/7 asshole. It will be decided within the next few years. Social media was already declared a public square Packingham v. North Carolina.pic.twitter.com/7etuL5sw3D
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Replying to @cmuratori @vyodaiken and
So we are currently waiting for a few cases to make their way to SCOTUS to find out whether or not social media has become a "public square" to the point where private corporations will be compelled to allow people to participate in them on equal terms.
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Replying to @cmuratori @vyodaiken and
We have already had such a ruling in the past in Marsh v. Alabama. It was held that a private corporation could not prohibit First Amendment-protected activity because they had become effectively a government because there was no other way to access the public square.
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You're welcome to read about it here before making your next ignorant comment, if you want. Or you can just go ahead and tell me I don't know about the First Amendment again, and enlighten me with your legal "wisdom":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama …
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Replying to @cmuratori @vyodaiken and
Another option you could take would be to stop talking, because you obviously have no idea about the First Amendment, and probably have never heard of any of these cases, whereas I know them back to front because I sometimes actually learn about things before I run my mouth.
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