Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Does Twitter Promote and Amplify Defamation Characters for Profit?

 

From Ace of Spades:

Mediaite makes a good point: These smear campaigns, these SJW scalp-hunting parties, do not just attract national attention organically.

They attract national attention because Twitter -- in a bid to seem "relevant" and to generate clicks and therefore cash -- amplies and promotes these organized defamation campaigns for its own profit.

The article notes that Twitter has had a hand in promoting the left's deplatforming campaigns -- sometimes adding to them with false and therefore defamatory claims that they themselves write, to add what they claim is "context."

This "context" tends to justify the claims made by the Marxist left, and this "context" almost always tends to suggest that the people being scalphunted by Twitter's leftwing Marxist Power Users deserve being scalped.

s. 230 gives Twitter (currently) immunity to what other people write on Twitter, but it's not supposed to give them immunity for their own defamations, tortious interferences with business relationships, and intentional inflictions of emotional harm.

Although there are some leftwing judges who seem to believe it essentially immunizes the Tech Monopolies from literally every lawsuit, and there are many Conservative, Inc. "analysts" who argue that the Tech Monopolies should be immune to suit for their own actions. (Note: this has nothing to do with the Tech Monopolies' donations replacing the donations of disaffected conservatives who no longer give money.)

This is why s.230 has to be repealed and replaced. 

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