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by findalex
1274 days ago
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When the FBI (i.e. the federal government) is asking a public company to censor you... I'd say it's getting dicey. If we don't have a free speech problem, then we have an abuse of executive powers problem - but we already knew that. One might argue Twitter didn't have to take the censorship advice from the feds but IMO they shouldn't be doing this type of lobbying adversarial to US citizens. |
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What it can’t do is punish people for what they say.
Twitter as you point out, is a business that is free to do whatever it likes, and publish whatever it likes on its website.
At no point did Twitter enter into an agreement with people posting tweets about who they will be shown to. That’s not part of its business.
Elon doesn’t seem to be doing anything differently. He’s using Twitter to advocate for his political views, and ban people he doesn’t like.
Associating Elon with freedom of speech is a red herring. There is no connection.
That said, everything that people keep claiming to be ‘censored’ is somehow public knowledge, and nobody is afraid the government is going to punish them for talking about it.
The idea that freedom of speech is under threat because of anything to do with Twitter just isn’t in contact with reality.