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To: NelsonEddyFan
I don’t have a Twitter account and have no interest in getting one, but how is a private corporation beholden to users who (to my knowledge) don’t even pay a fee?

From a public policy point of view because they take advantage of legal protection offered to internet businesses that act as a form of public utility to shield themselves from the liability that they would otherwise have for publishing the material they do.

97 posted on 07/20/2016 5:54:53 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

exactly... even if there were a conservative twitter, the company would have to censure. What the alt right pranksters want is the ability to troll for fun. That’s what 4chan and 8chan are for.


101 posted on 07/20/2016 6:17:02 AM PDT by Katya
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To: freeandfreezing

As another poster FR bans posters regularly. I think you’d agree it shares whatever “public utility” benefits that Twitter has.


135 posted on 07/23/2016 6:29:45 AM PDT by NelsonEddyFan
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