Twitter Adds Fact-Check Warnings to Trump Tweets

Twitter hasn’t done that. If they aren’t deleting his nonsense he posted about Joe Scarborough they aren’t deleting anything.

 

Did you fall asleep on your keyboard or can you actually think of a way that this related to my post?

 

It's still censorship even if it's legal.

And progressives are cheering for it.

 

Progressives still want him to be censored, and they'd cheer for it if he was.

 

Baloney, free speech is free speech.

 

How is it censorship when the government is not interfering with speech in any way?

And conservatives (including "conservatives" like the President) want the government to step in to prevent private institutions from making their own speech decisions on their own platforms, violating both private property and free speech.

 

Free speech does not give you the right to force a private owner to publish something for you if they don't want to, and free speech means those same private publishers can comment if they wish to do so. The Constitution isn't baloney. Private property rights aren't baloney. ACTUAL free speech rights (i.e., not those Trump and his followers are twisting and trying to redefine) are not baloney.

The thing that Trump and his supporters will never understand is that your right to free speech does not entitle you to someone else's bullhorn.

 

It's still censorship even when the government isn't involved.

 

Based on that logic, you are censoring me if you don't put anything I want in your signature. Free speech means you must publish my views for me and commenting in any way is a violation of my right to free speech! . . . at least according to Trump and his supporters.

 

No.

I'm not a government, private institution, or other controlling body.

 

I have seen it in writing that it is an infringement.

 

All private people with the capacity to publish are private institutions in their own right when it comes to publishing.

But if you insist, then according to your logic, Breitbart is censoring me if they don't publish everything I want them to, without commentary of any kind, and PF, Twitter, and every other publisher in existence is violating my rights to free speech by having rules of any kind for what they will and will not publish.

 

If Twitter decides to "fact check" then they are no longer a platform but a publisher. That means they are liable and can be sued.

 

Not to those of use who understand the concepts. But continue with your hatred for free speech and private property rights by pretending your "rights" are being infringed if someone doesn't grant you the use of their private property to publish your views or adds their own speech when doing so.

No one is ill-informed enough to buy it.

 

Take it up with the moderators of this forum if you want to exercise your right to post possum pictures in my sig.

I'm a private citizen, and I don't owe you any right to any sort of speech.

 

So you want to remove free speech rights from platforms. Glad to hear you acknowledge that fact.

 

No private entity owes anyone the use of their property for speech. Congrats, you finally get it!!!

 

I agree, but it's still censorship if a private organization denies a private entity the same ability to communicate they grant others.

I'm not saying it's illegal, but I am saying it's censorship.

I don't like censorship. I don't agree with the suppression of ideas and communication whether I agree with them or not.

Do you like censorship?

 

You should google what Free Speech means. Twitter is a private company, they are within their rights to set their own rules just as Political Forum has the rights to set rules that limit your speech here.

 

Any idiot that is so partisan that doesn't understand that mail in voting opens the door wide open to fraud, shouldn't be fact checking his own ass. What I do find hilarious about lefties is they're not intelligent enough to realize the fraud will happen against them too. same with me too, same with getting dirt on a political opponent from Russia....

 

The difference is the leftists know they're much better at it when it comes to committing voter fraud.

Lots of practice.

 

WRONG.

Where are you even getting that from?

Case Law?

Citations?

Do tell.

 

Lolwut?

How?

Exactly?.

Do you even understand how mail-in voting works?

Your comment seems to be based on misinformation and misunderstanding of the protocol involved.

And then, to top it all off, you throw in a shady remark that is a Group Insult to "Lefties"'?

"they're not intelligent enough to realize"

Wow. :smh:

 

I agree with private property rights and the free speech rights of platforms and publishers. As for censorship, I do not agree with the government doing it, because that is actual censorship and affects all channels. But if Twitter wants to say that they won't publish, for example, outright racist posts, then I support their right to make that decision. The "rights" of the racists aren't actually being violated. If Breitbart won't publish a wingnut conspiracy from a leftist, I support their rights to make that editorial decision as well.

In the case of Trump and Twitter, it looks like they didn't even remove the post or "censor" it in any way. They simply added their own commentary, which Trump claims they had no right to do. So it is actually Trump advocating for the suppression of free speech . . . by a publisher . . . on THEIR OWN PLATFORM.

And this is hardly a first for Trump. He's even sued people for calling his building plan ugly. He's sued people for (correctly, it turns out) claiming that his wealth and business claims are exaggerated, and he threatened to sue someone for the "crime" of (again, correctly) criticizing his business decisions.
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I don't want him censored. Not one bit. I'm glad that he is sharing his REAL thoughts and beliefs on Twitter. His psyche has been laid bare for all voters to see. Censorship is something I believe his administration would love to see.