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@adlowdon @V5Pilot I look forward to Elon creating a court system that can issue orders of protection so that Twitter stays within the bounds of the law — PolitiTweet.org

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@V5Pilot @adlowdon It is actually a direct response to the claim. Does the government have this power? Yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jkosseff: If anyone wants to see an actual First Amendment problem that's going on right now: https://t.co/5qIJBtsUjX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sdaswani: This week @reckless had me listening at 1.25x speed, since he hosted the amazing Executive Director from the @EFF on his late… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @htsuka: Such a great conversation between Cindy and @reckless. Proud to work at @EFF; proud to work for Cindy. https://t.co/tMl3F2ig9U — PolitiTweet.org

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@aidan_mclau There is no "open-sourcing" of anything without choosing a license — PolitiTweet.org

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@ngriffin_uk You will note that this page begins with discussion of the license terms — PolitiTweet.org

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@UrbanR14 @Comparativist George Bush put protestors in "free speech zones" away from his speeches. It never really goes away https://t.co/5WZsmS5Lii — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @karaswisher: Lastly I am getting a ton of texts from lots of folks close to Twitter appalled that Jack is not defending his longtime le… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jvelasco How on earth did you get that from this — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh, and Gitlow went to trial in 1920. His lawyer was *Clarence Darrow*. The Supreme Court first heard arguments on appeal in 1923 and issued the decision in 1925. Nothing about "free speech" is easy, cheap, or fast! — PolitiTweet.org

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Whatever you think free speech is, the actual history of how it works is messier, shittier, and far more morally complex than you think. That important 1925 case? The Supreme Court *still* ruled that NY could prosecute a socialist publisher under the "criminal anarchy" law. — PolitiTweet.org

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This tweet isn't going to do any numbers but let's all take a second to think about the fact that our cherished First Amendment is only as powerful as it is because of the Civil War and the expansive rights granted to all citizens during Reconstruction in the 14th Amendment. — PolitiTweet.org

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The prominent VCs reading the Wikipedia entry for the First Amendment tonight should really stop and consider what a miracle it is that 1A restricts state-level speech regulations at all, which the Supreme Court only ruled on in 1925(!) https://t.co/9opTiGHWVs — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobinRedcap @pmarca I can practice law in two states, let me know if you want me to quiz you on what that extremely limited set of restrictions means in practice — PolitiTweet.org

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There are fields, Neo. Endless fields where underpaid gig workers defeat captchas on behalf of bots https://t.co/SICT3gB7zR — PolitiTweet.org

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@evan_cauler @adlowdon sure it does — PolitiTweet.org

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@V5Pilot @adlowdon I wasn't dunking on anyone. I was responding to the specific claim that "the government doesn’t have the power to stop people I don’t like from talking to me, that’s on me to get away from them" which is fundamentally untrue — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @karaswisher: Btw Jack was ceo, so whatever you’re pissed at her about, you toxic chodes, is ultimately his call. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realpauleverton I didn’t not say it — PolitiTweet.org

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@a1by This would be incredible and I will be an Elon stan for life if he goes full open web — PolitiTweet.org

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@IDoubtIt Well it’s worth 2.5 trillion dollars so I think they might be slightly out of reach — PolitiTweet.org

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Had not even considered the fact that Elon will run directly into Apple’s various content moderation requirements. The App Store remains the single most effective regulator of the internet — PolitiTweet.org

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@Tyris620 Read the thing — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DaveLeeFT: Moments after @elonmusk publicly criticised the work of Twitter policy exec @vijaya, her mentions are full of hateful tweets… — PolitiTweet.org

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We can all quit Twitter tomorrow. The police targeting you because you said unflattering things about them is far more dangerous — PolitiTweet.org

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When will the billionaires pay attention to the real free speech problems in America — PolitiTweet.org

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@gwalkamoly In the sense that it will be exhausting to watch speedrun the same bullshit every other platform has to deal with, sure — PolitiTweet.org

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@taterpie @Myles_Lobdell Again, I think this is a pretty intense galaxy brain view of how speech works in this country. A much easier solution is to spend your time and money with the private companies whose speech policies you support — PolitiTweet.org

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@taterpie @Myles_Lobdell I think "if the people wanted social platforms to do more content moderation they would repeal the first amendment" is a pretty intense galaxy-brain take — PolitiTweet.org