[incomingpain]

That's a cool idea. Largely speaking you can see Elon's point of view.

He was on Babylon Bee's show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M 2.4 million views in last 3 months. In this video they in detail discuss the problem with political banning.

2 months later, Babylon Bee got banned off twitter for a joke. Clear political banning and violation of section 230.

[everforward]

> Clear political banning and violation of section 230.

This has been posted a bunch of times, and it's wrong. Section 230 doesn't prohibit political bannings. It doesn't actually prohibit any banning at all.

This is the relevant section (from https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230).

> (2) Civil liability > No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of— > (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or > availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, > lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise > objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;

Even banning for constitutionally protected speech is explicitly allowed.

Whether that's a good thing or not is a separate conversation, but nothing presently in section 230 would prevent Twitter/Facebook/etc from banning an entire political party.

[spamizbad]

Babylon Bee doesn't threaten the national security establishment. The "Far left" and "Far right" - yes.

The idea is you won't get banned for making jokes about trans stuff, but you'll instead get banned for saying something bad about US global hegemony. It's not a culture war issue so nobody is going to care that you got censored.

[weeblewobble]

For the record Babylon Bee is not banned, they can unlock their account any time by deleting a Tweet that jokingly gives a "man of the year award" to a real individual transwoman by name.

[jaywalk]

"They're not banned! They are free to continue tweeting as soon as they abandon their principles and bow down to Twitter's arbitrary rules!"

[weeblewobble]

It's not an arbitrary rule, it's spelled out in their Terms of Servoce

[jaywalk]

The fact that it's in the ToS doesn't mean it's not arbitrary.

[AnimalMuppet]

So they aren't banned, just the one tweet is. Sounds good, but the reality is that unless and until they recant that one tweet, then they are banned.

[weeblewobble]

They don't really have to recant it, just delete it. It's a pretty mean tweet anyway, not sure why its worth defending