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James Lindsay on His Lifetime Twitter Ban

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Is Twitter a Legislative Authority?

As an American citizen, your speech isn't supposed to be regulated. Twitter doesn't have the power to make law that regulates speech. There could be very basic laws to prevent outright obscenity and threat - which are not protected speech. If you've built a platform, especially of any size, this is a mais brain washing. That can be more and more invested in the friends that you have there. They get to moderate their platform however they want. Well, it's not a private platform anyway anyway... It's an architecture on public facing platforms.

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