The FCC commissioners are beginning to check in.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The White House Retweeted

Serious question for
@Twitter
: Do these tweets from Supreme Leader of Iran
@khamenei_ir
violate "Twitter Rules about glorifying violence"?

Link to tweet

Twitter’s censorship here doesn’t even appear to fall within the policy it cites.

Like any business, Twitter has a right to its views.

And like any business, Twitter is accountable for meeting its terms of service.

No business gets to violate those terms for political reasons.

Link to tweet

[Thomas Hurt]

1. A Trump apparatchik squeals....

[ibegurpard]

2. Idiotic arguments

No platform is going to curate every single posting. They respond to complaints... particularly repeated patterns of behavior. Are these tools suggesting there was an enormous and continual outpouring of complaints about those postings that were ignored while Twitter went afyer Trump?

[lagomorph777]

5. I assumed the Twit post was pointing out that Turd's account should be removed.

Because the POS is violating their TOS on a daily basis.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Twitter doesn't need a reason

Twitter can delete Trump's tweets just because they don't like him.
Trump doesn't pay Twitter for anything. It's a free privately owned service.
Trump can choose to use it or not. That's freedom too.

[blogslut]

4. The FCC has no power over Twitter

Now, if they were to declare the Internet a public utility...

[lagomorph777]

6. Yeah I don't get the FCC connection at all - what is the context?

[blogslut]

8. Sycophancy

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Somebody linked to this earlier today. I can't find his post.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

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There's this too:

You're going to hear a lot about Section 230 today. Here is an explainer about what it is, why it matters and why it may, again, be under threat. (Orginally published in August)

Link to tweet

[ScratchCat]

7. Why in the hell do these dolts keep using the word "censor"?

Nothing has been censored or deleted, it has simply been flagged. I STG, the world is freaking over if rational freaking adults are going to concoct their own fantasy land because Twitter dared to flag three out of a million tweets by Donald Trump. Seriously, not one person should be trying to pretend Trump is the victim. Its as absurd as pretending water isn't wet or the sky is green.

[Walleye]

10. Governments censor, private companies edit

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. So lemme guess-- Trump leaned on the FCC commissioners to chime in even though...

...even though the FCC has NO AUTHORITY here. Pai and Carr then shivered in their boots and posted some boilerplate but ultimately baseless commentary.
Well, fuck the bunch of them.