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Reporter Banned From X for reporting on Tesla Crash

by pologreen1978 on 8/2/23, 10:36 PM with 7 comments

  • by kelthan on 8/2/23, 10:50 PM

    Reminder, Twitter (now X) is a privately owned company. Comments like "How does anyone in our government allow this nonsense?" are answered by the simple statement that the First Amendment allows companies like Twitter (X) to do these things because they are a private company.

    However, that does not mean that users of the platform should not consider this a warning that the current owner--despite claiming to be a free-speech absolutist--should be trusted with their business.

  • by Crunchified on 8/2/23, 11:08 PM

    Are you all quite sure that "How does anyone in our government allow this nonsense?" does not refer to the government's safety regulators and their alleged duty to keep cars reasonably safe?

  • by archo on 8/3/23, 1:46 AM