X is suing California over social media content moderation law::X, the social media company previously known as Twitter, is suing the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices.

  • @[email protected]
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    851 year ago

    The only reason they use the word “constitutional” is because they want the conservative supreme court to make a ruling to allow hate speech.

    Meanwhile, conservatives also want to ban books about love.

    This really has nothing to do with technology though. Quite the contrary. Twitter isn’t technology. It’s a tool for making dark age politics.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      Also because they’re fond of pretending that if something they’re doing isn’t expressly forbidden in the constitution, that means it’s VIRTUOUS and must be protected at all costs!

      On the other hand, anything that their opponents do that isn’t expressly MANDATED by the constitution is villainy most foul and must be outlawed and penalised with at least a decade of enslavement that is highly lucrative to the owner donors imprisonment

  • @redders
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    411 year ago

    Why is anyone calling it X?

    The sign still says Twitter, the domain still says Twitter, it’s still Twitter.

      • Xero
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        31 year ago

        naZisland

    • ram
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      41 year ago

      I call it X/Twitter/whatever just to add some frustration and negative sentiment to the branding in my own circles. A reminder that the platform’s been poisoned and it isn’t what people should be using.

    • @dx1
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      deleted by creator

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    341 year ago

    “If @X has nothing to hide, then they should have no objection to this bill,” Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, who wrote AB 587, said in response to X’s lawsuit.”

    The government breaks out absolute worst argument they could

    • @ChicoSuave
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      181 year ago

      It’s the same argument that conservatives use so they will understand.

    • @[email protected]
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      -181 year ago

      Did you expect any better of an argument from the type of politician who thinks they’re entitled to this kind of intrusive bullshit?

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            What do you mean?

            Edit: Oh, you mean “if you have nothing to hide you won’t mind us spying” one? I couldn’t agree more if I tried!

        • @[email protected]
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          -211 year ago

          How so is it not intrusive for the government to demand private shit it has no business asking for?

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            91 year ago

            It’s not “private shit it has no business asking for”, it’s proof that social media platforms are upholding the special duties that come with the special privileges being the “public square” of the internet.

              • @[email protected]
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                81 year ago

                Yes there is, you can go to Speakers Corner, a literal public square, and talk about all kinds of nonsense, but if you bust out the Nazi regalia you’ll be shut down quick sharp by the old bill.

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                71 year ago

                Yeah there is. It’s called public safety. The January 6th attempted coup was (poorly, but still) planned on Twitter, Facebook and Parler. If those three had been better moderated when it comes to hate speech and misinformation, the 9 people who died as a result of it would probably be alive today.

              • @dragonflyteaparty
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                51 year ago

                What is precisely unlimited about this? Should companies be able to keep whatever they want behind the curtain and we aren’t allowed to ask what it is?

                • @[email protected]
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                  -101 year ago

                  You said that government business is whatever the government passes laws about, which literally gives the government unlimited justification to do anything and everything because, by definition, it’s the proper business of government under that standard.

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                Is that what they did or did they just create a narrowly defined law for a specific purpose?

                • @[email protected]
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                  -81 year ago

                  It doesn’t matter how narrow a law is if the government has no fucking place making that law

    • @trashgirlfriend
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      121 year ago

      “Leave the richest man on earth alone!” he yelled out, weilding his katana in a reverse grip… for some reason.

    • @Doomsider
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      81 year ago

      Said the person who has never been a moderator or has any clue about moderation.

      • @Hackerman_uwu
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        51 year ago

        This is an instance where scanning over someone’s post history might elucidate why they are spewing bullshit. HINT: it’s SOP for that account.

  • Throwaway
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    -311 year ago

    Remember kids, hate speech laws only outlaw speech the state doesn’t like. You know, like McCarthy did.