The private company argument is outrageous and doesn't stand up to existing law.
Twitter being a private business has a Legal Classification as a “public accommodation” according to federal law. Place of public accommodation means a facility operated by a private entity whose operations affect commerce. Facility means all or any portion of buildings, structures, sites, complexes, equipment, rolling stock or other conveyances, roads, walks, passageways, parking lots, or other real or personal property, including the site where the building, property, structure, or equipment is located. One can argue the facility or facilities that Twitter uses are the location to where those servers or equipment housed thereforth to which Twitter provides a public accommodation.
Pursuant to Title III Reg 28 CFR§36.104. Twitter's private business serves the public and is engaged in commerce. Commerce means travel, trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication. Therefore Twitter shall abide by all State and Federal laws.
No business policy supersedes the law. No business in communication can hide the fact they are a public accommodation.
Twitter is open to the public, and anyone using Twitter is the public. Twitter denial of service violates several laws.
Federal law prohibits the ”denial of participation” from any business establishment as found under 28 CFR §36.202.
Under 28 CFR §36.202(c) further states that unless I have been individually assessed as a “direct threat” you may not exclude me from the same and equal services as others. Twitter does not have the right to impersonate a police officer and to make policy that is discriminatory and unlawful. Twitter must follow and not exceed the statutory laws already legislated. a "direct threat" means a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by a modification of policies, practices, or procedures, or by the provision of auxiliary aids or services, as provided in 28 CFR §36.208.
Denying service or suspending someone is a violation of Title II, III, and VII of the U.S. Civil Right Act of 1964.
Title III Sections 28 CFR §36.202(a)(b)(c) and 28 CFR §36.203(a)(b)(c) state that I shall not be denied the same participation and equal access as everyone else. The law prohibits Twitter from providing service that is discriminatory or differently from any one else.
Why aren't people applying the laws that are already in the books? Where are the lawyers?
Yeah isn't this somewhat related to the scenario of refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple?
Pardon the pun, but the Left can't have their cake and eat it too on this.
No. A request to do something that is repugnant to the moral conscience is not at all the same as censorship.
How does one apply legal laws objectively to moral conscience though? Isn't that an inherently subjective, personal thing? Does Twitter have the ability to say that the opinions of Trump (or other conservatives) are repugnant to their moral conscience?
Not trying to be a shill or argumentative...I genuinely don't know how the lines should be drawn and am curious how we can fight against this.
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