Monday, March 25, 2019


Devin Nunes sues Twitter.  Censorship?    

Below is an excerpt from  a very derisive article in the Leftist Boston Globe about the Devin Nunes lawsuit.  It's almost solid abuse, mostly in the form of poorly-founded mockery.  And in typical Leftist style ends in a non-sequitur.  It claims that Nunes is promoting political censorship when he compains about what is said of him.  But that is a crock.  Defamation and libel have never been protected speech.  So Nunes is changing precisely nothing in speech rules


California Representative Devin Nunes announced a $250 million defamation lawsuit he filed against Twitter as well as three users — Republican strategist Liz Mair, and two parody accounts: the now-suspended @DevinNunesMom and @DevinCow.

Nunes’s suit claims that Twitter is “shadow-banning” conservatives and conservative content, knowingly hosting abusive content (otherwise known as “Twitter”), ignoring complaints about abusive content, and failing to self-regulate and “thereby selectively amplifying the message of defamers such as Mair, Devin Nunes’ Mom and Devin Nunes’ cow.”

Whatever Nunes’s reasoning, the lawsuit recenters a dangerous notion of a state-side regulation of political critique, which, in the hands of this administration, I am going to guess would be handled less gently than migrant children.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A strange situation has developed where the law does not recognise Facebook/Twitter et al as publishers per the Communications Decency Act, but Facebook/Twitter want to - and are often expected to - control the content of material published on their channels.
These two ideas cannot co-exist.

Stan B said...

Facebook and Twitter are editors, pure and simple. That means they are no longer protected by the "safe harbor" act - they are publishers. As soon as they started regulating legal content and opinions, they became editors. They should be treated as such.