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X is suing California over social media content moderation law

https://www.engadget.com/x-is-suing-california-over-social-media-content-moderation-law-233034890.html

X, the social media company previously known as Twitter, is suing the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices.

X is suing California over social media content moderation law::X, the social media company previously known as Twitter, is suing the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices.

39 comments

bstix

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The only reason they use the word "constitutional" is because they want the conservative supreme court to make a ruling to allow hate speech.

Meanwhile, conservatives also want to ban books about love.

This really has nothing to do with technology though. Quite the contrary. Twitter isn't technology. It's a tool for making dark age politics.

Viking_Hippie

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Also because they're fond of pretending that if something they're doing isn't expressly forbidden in the constitution, that means it's VIRTUOUS and must be protected at all costs!

On the other hand, anything that their opponents do that isn't expressly MANDATED by the constitution is villainy most foul and must be outlawed and penalised with at least a decade of ~~enslavement that is highly lucrative to the owner donors~~ imprisonment

redders

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Why is anyone calling it X?

The sign still says Twitter, the domain still says Twitter, it's still Twitter.

CurlyMoustache

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I call it Nazi Island

0Xero0

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naZisland

ram

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I call it X/Twitter/whatever just to add some frustration and negative sentiment to the branding in my own circles. A reminder that the platform's been poisoned and it isn't what people should be using.

dx1

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Viking_Hippie

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Reverendender

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“If @X has nothing to hide, then they should have no objection to this bill,” Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, who wrote AB 587, said in response to X’s lawsuit.”

The government breaks out absolute worst argument they could

ChicoSuave

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It's the same argument that conservatives use so they will understand.

MomoTimeToDie

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Did you expect any better of an argument from the type of politician who thinks they're entitled to this kind of intrusive bullshit?

Viking_Hippie

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Reverendender

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Agreed. That said, this argument is never the one to use.

Viking_Hippie

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What do you mean?

Edit: Oh, you mean "if you have nothing to hide you won't mind us spying" one? I couldn't agree more if I tried!

MomoTimeToDie

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How so is it not intrusive for the government to demand private shit it has no business asking for?

Viking_Hippie

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It's not "private shit it has no business asking for", it's proof that social media platforms are upholding the special duties that come with the special privileges being the "public square" of the internet.

MomoTimeToDie

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There is no duty to censor the public square

NuPNuA

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Viking_Hippie

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Yeah there is. It's called public safety. The January 6th attempted coup was (poorly, but still) planned on Twitter, Facebook and Parler. If those three had been better moderated when it comes to hate speech and misinformation, the 9 people who died as a result of it would probably be alive today.

MomoTimeToDie

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RadicalCandour

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The government has made it their business via passing the law. So.. ya know…

MomoTimeToDie

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The government can't just declare itself just and act with unlimited reach

dragonflyteaparty

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What is precisely unlimited about this? Should companies be able to keep whatever they want behind the curtain and we aren't allowed to ask what it is?

MomoTimeToDie

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You said that government business is whatever the government passes laws about, which literally gives the government unlimited justification to do anything and everything because, by definition, it's the proper business of government under that standard.