so how do you feel about the confederate flag? is that free speech? a swastika? free speech too?easyrider16 wrote:If twitter flags a tweet as potentially misinformation, and provides supporting links, that is speech. The President wants to restrict their ability to offer that speech. That is censorship. Ego, the President is trying to censor Twitter. How is it anything else?neither a platform nor a publisher is has any first amendment restrictions on them...both are free to say whatever they want...only your alternative reality considers that "censorship"...
It's interesting how some conservatives are all about free speech until they hear speech they don't like. Such as flag burning. Or kneeling during the anthem. Or twitter posting fact checks.
As to Twitter's alleged censorship, they are not preventing his tweets from being published, are they? It's one thing to acknowledge that search and display algorithms boost certain types of speech. It's another to say that they are actually preventing publication of speech. While I think the former happens routinely, I don't think the latter happens at all, other than to restrict pornography, violent material, etc.
personally I don't consider ANY of them to be speech...nor do I see any reason why there needs to be any legal definition of those things...I think flag burning would be the closest to any sort of "illegal" activity...but I'm not advocating for it...kneeling during the anthem? I don't want a law...I still disapprove...
twitter " fact checking" is a whole different story...most of their "fact checking" is offering THEIR opinion or their belief in someone else opinion...and most often with great bias....that makes them a publisher...
yer wild stretch of trump "censoring" is ridiculous...he isn't suggesting anything of the sort...he's saying that they are a publisher not a platform...neither of them would be censored from saying anything...
why do you insist on seeing things that don't actually exist and insisting they are fact...