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2020-10-17 -Land of the Free

Twitter Still Hasn't Unlocked New York Post's Account

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Posted by Angoluter Thremp3808 2020-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Buying the left time to manufacture an artificial defense.

Posted by gorb 2020-10-17 04:09|| 2020-10-17 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 You can already see the fake news revving up to "debunk" this as "just a smear". All they need to do is hold it off for a couple of weeks while people vote early. They just need a delay, and that is exactly what FB and Twatter are giving them.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-10-17 05:24|| 2020-10-17 05:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Criminal interference with an election. If ever there a reason to strike down the 230 exemption for tech companies, this is surely the prime one

Posted by Crearong Flineting7476 2020-10-17 07:11|| 2020-10-17 07:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Nora O'Donnell on CBS is claiming that Giuliani got his information from Russians.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-10-17 10:59|| 2020-10-17 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh right. The Russkies. And the Chinese?
And the Kazakh bandit's son (Rakirev)?
And the US Treasury Dept?
And the Iraq Reconstruction Authority and Amtrak and MBNA and...?

Russkies. Yup.

Posted by Jiggs Smiter of the Welsh5586 2020-10-17 11:13|| 2020-10-17 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The ongoing biased and hateful attempt by Telecoms to destroy and silence conservative speech is not a First Amendment issue (so, no “easy” civil rights pathway to take them on via a private right of action, i.e., lawsuit), because the Telecom companies are not government. 42 USC 1983 cases are brought to address governmental abuses of power.

However, the Telecoms’ license to engage in commerce can and should be regulated by government to promote the public welfare. Until the government reigns them in, monolithic Telecom companies will continue censoring those they dislike—until the Common Carrier Doctrine is imposed against them. Antitrust action also would be appropriate.

The Telecoms forget that they cannot be allowed to violate the Common Carrier Doctrine —“come one, come all . . . each to be given fair access and passage." They also cannot be permitted to continue their criminal Antitrust activities . . .

The imposition of the Common Carrier Doctrine will likely need to be through Congressional Act (although the Courts could certainly equitably find common carrier status easily enough for almost any of these monolithic Telecom companies under current law). And, given the clear coordination between the Telecoms, the DOJs Antitrust Division should take action, as well.

Until the Common Carrier Doctrine is imposed, or an Antitrust action reins them in, these unregulated monolithic Telecom companies will continue their discriminatory abuses of conservatives—hiding behind the false claim of a private right to content-based discrimination.

Posted by cingold 2020-10-17 11:16|| 2020-10-17 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Antitrust is the long game. Dems and their crime syndicate, La Familia Biden, are laser-focused on the next 17 days.

Posted by Omeang Hupong2041 2020-10-17 12:08|| 2020-10-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 If they can hold this off for the next 2 weeks, they bury it. And apparently they have minions at the FBI who have had this for nearly a year and have hidden it - and who are now trying to investigate this to see if it is "Russian Disinformation" instead of Biden Crimes.

The who of Washington has rotted. The FBI needs to be disassembled and a majority of the people thrown out if not jailed for this sort of malfeasance.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-10-17 16:13|| 2020-10-17 16:13|| Front Page Top

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