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Hugh_Lebowski

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3. You can't be arrested for your speech, when spoken to other people (like with your voice)
Mon Nov 28, 2022, 06:14 PM
Nov 2022

Nor can you be if you hand out pamphlets on a sidewalk, or someone publishes a book of your writings (be that you or some third party publisher).

Unless of course it violates laws about making illegal threats, etc.

Your 'speech' on social media, however, is PRODUCT. Its appearance (or non-appearance) thereon is arbitered by the platform owners, and they can refuse to host what you wrote just like the NYT doesn't have to publish every LTTE they receive.

First Amendment doesn't guarantee anyone a worldwide soap-box, esp. not one provided at someone else's expense.

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Apple's response should be Gore1FL Nov 2022 #1
"Hey, Elon, it's your platform, so you can run grumpyduck Nov 2022 #2
You can't be arrested for your speech, when spoken to other people (like with your voice) Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #3
Simply put... Caliman73 Nov 2022 #17
Does Muck believe in free advertising? C_U_L8R Nov 2022 #4
I haven't been over to Twitter in years Trenzalore Nov 2022 #5
Ask muskRatFucker if he Hates Cha Nov 2022 #6
+1. The richest man on the planet also wants to be the most powerful man on the planet. dalton99a Nov 2022 #7
that brings to mind.. The bigger Cha Nov 2022 #9
I hope so. Twitter has been a cesspool for years. jimfields33 Nov 2022 #14
Apple doesn't want to support NAZI propaganda, I believe. Kid Berwyn Nov 2022 #8
John Scalzi explains it well.. Cha Nov 2022 #11
How Elon Musk's Twitter reign magnified his brutal management style Kid Berwyn Nov 2022 #13
That's a Badge of Honor for Eric Cha Nov 2022 #15
People and corporations are free to leave Twitter. Musk cannot require anyone to stay. Freethinker65 Nov 2022 #10
Doesn't look like they hate free speech. chriscan64 Nov 2022 #12
WTF is wrong with people who DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT FREE SPEECH MEANS Skittles Nov 2022 #16
The Free Speech RobinA Nov 2022 #24
but they THEMSELVES want to literally limit speech Skittles Nov 2022 #26
Idiot Musk should know Capitalism when he sees it. Caliman73 Nov 2022 #18
Elon Musk is literally banning liberals and people who disagree with him Galraedia Nov 2022 #19
Freedom means C_U_L8R Nov 2022 #20
He should just call "Tim Apple". GoodRaisin Nov 2022 #21
He' a hopelessly confused megalomaniac. GoCubsGo Nov 2022 #22
I think it was Jeff T. who replied..... usedtobedemgurl Nov 2022 #23
It's gaslighting to enhance the feelings of victimhood among the White Nationalists. bluesbassman Nov 2022 #25
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