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by mpalmer 1009 days ago
> How many times have I been asked (indirectly by the government) to declare my "race" and not been presented with the obvious option of "human"?

This particular statement by X doesn't get at the root of the legal matter at issue. Statistics about constitutionally protected behavior are not analogous to statistics dealing with demographic information.

> The reason I think it's an appropriate topic is because Section 230 immunizes the supposed expressive content of X's editorial policy so ... X shouldn't have as free rein to run that program in secret according to unknown whims.

They're immune from liability related to how they moderate content, therefore they have to disclose information to the government about how they moderate content? That sounds an awful lot like they're back to being liable.