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I'll be on CNBC at 2:10PM ET to talk about... ~ all this ~ — PolitiTweet.org

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(Gentle reminder that Merkel thinks it's problematic for Twitter to have the power to ban Trump because her alternative is the the government having that power, and the EU is about to pass the Digital Services Act to enshrine it thus https://t.co/OLKl2vI02C) — PolitiTweet.org

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@FPNLive @russellbrandom You will find that all of those laws have specific rationales that do not apply to Facebook, or with which Facebook is already in compliance — PolitiTweet.org

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@FPNLive @russellbrandom Find a rationale that overcomes the phrase "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" as applied to Mark Zuckerberg's decisions about Facebook — PolitiTweet.org

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The most important thing to remember as the platform moderation conversation enters a new era, from @russellbrandom https://t.co/E6TxbziQpo https://t.co/FiZNuz29LP — PolitiTweet.org

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Bixby for President, it can’t be worse — PolitiTweet.org

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Samsung’s wackadoo CES tagline this year hits hard https://t.co/yqpETVkTpC — PolitiTweet.org

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@mollyfud @backlon Haha the first thing @backlon and I did when we became the editors was cancel every meeting — PolitiTweet.org

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The Browns’ entire coaching staff is out with COVID and they’re up 28-0 on the Steelers in the playoffs, no one needs a manager and almost all meetings should be emails — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrandonSigg Yep — PolitiTweet.org

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@blakereid One imagines the conference where they tailored the majority opinion around this pushback — PolitiTweet.org

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@blakereid You are a monster for making me read Pacifica on a Sunday afternoon but I thiiiink we are emphatically agreeing with each other. https://t.co/yGpW9k4Jf5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@blakereid I’m saying whatever rules are predicated on the concept of the public owning the airwaves, or at least that is what I have always been told — PolitiTweet.org

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*constraints of the First Amendment. Tweets but editable, etc — PolitiTweet.org

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The government cannot ban PornHub because of the First Amendment. Should YouTube be able to ban porn? Great, you’ve abandoned the constraints First Amendment. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Because they haven’t done the work of just asking the people who’ve been proposing them for years, of course. It is the fundamental issue at the heart of the good-faith 230 debate, bills on Congress for a while now. https://t.co/iiMAO1bdBA — PolitiTweet.org

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@songofall @KeeganGoerz (230 was expressly written to incentivize companies to moderate) — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrandonArvay I think the past year or so has shown that thinking of it as a binary just results in chaos — PolitiTweet.org

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@DevinLindelof It’s a Sony A7R! https://t.co/kJohSlfIUq — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple has kicked Parler off the App Store https://t.co/ypOd5ECBLh — PolitiTweet.org

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Gosh how did this razor-sharp mind ever get bamboozled by Foxconn https://t.co/PkzN5nwtoj — PolitiTweet.org

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If you are looking at this moment in American history and your only frame is Twitter, you are hopelessly poisoned by Online. 90 percent of Americans don’t use this service, and that includes a majority of the richest and most powerful people in the country — PolitiTweet.org

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If you are looking at this moment in American history and your only frame is Twitter, you are hopelessly poisoned by Online. 90 percent of Americans don’t use this service, and that includes most the richest and powerful people in the country — PolitiTweet.org

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@2011Shahidahmad @andersoncooper @ChrisCuomo @wolfblitzer @GStephanopoulos Their boss, and their boss’s boss, do not tweet — PolitiTweet.org

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Just a reminder that the most powerful people in American media do not tweet and mostly never have — PolitiTweet.org

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@acjuelich I’m just a guy looking at the flag of the Confederacy being run through our nation’s Capitol — PolitiTweet.org

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@acjuelich What a miserable time to make a slippery slope argument — PolitiTweet.org

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I didn’t realize Twitter’s terms of service defined the entire structure of the government, abolished slavery, extended the right to vote, and provided a mechanism to remove the President — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @antoniogm: Interesting to live in a nation in which a company's terms of service matter more than the constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Your honor I’m suing Twitter for not allowing a racist traitor to use its services” — PolitiTweet.org