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@adlowdon The government absolutely has the power to make people stop talking to you and stay away. Lawyers literally call it a "full stay-away order." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thedextriarchy: on wednesdays we all have to moderate each other — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattswider @elonmusk Spam is totally legal and protected speech and "fire in a crowded theater" is not actually a thing. So it's long way from here to there. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Myles_Lobdell @taterpie So your idea here is that we should repeal the First Amendment — PolitiTweet.org

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@bixbytrenholm You want to revoke... the First Amendment — PolitiTweet.org

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@enjoyaugusto How on earth do you prove you are a human without providing data — PolitiTweet.org

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@Teh_Diver This is already true — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t care if Elon buys Twitter or not but my god someone please help him do the basic reading here — PolitiTweet.org

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Also the people of the United States cannot “ask government to pass laws” to restrict speech. The government is prohibited from doing that by the First Amendment. We rely on the free market to govern speech because private companies can do things the government can’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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You cannot “match the law” and then also say you will “authenticate all humans” and block spam bots. The law protects anonymous speech. The law protects commercial speech. Every service that has ever tried this move has quickly retreated for the same obvious reasons — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EFF: EFF’s own Cindy Cohn talks government surveillance, Elon Musk, & free speech with The @Verge’s Decoder, hosted by @reckless - have… — PolitiTweet.org

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@diklein Yep! — PolitiTweet.org

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I literally put the Studio Display back in the box last night, of course. Will test it out soon! — PolitiTweet.org

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Look we do a lot of things here but in our heart of hearts, webcam software updates will always be breaking news — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @vjeranpavic: Ok! My turn! Some personal news: https://t.co/q24g2AkzRe — PolitiTweet.org

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@ngriffin_uk That's just really not what that means at all. This is a 30-year conversation with lots of controversy and politics! — PolitiTweet.org

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@MartyArmstrong Right but that is not "open-sourcing the algorithm" — PolitiTweet.org

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@chkuendig I was born in the dark. Molded by it — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhavalpatel @chang_koo But you don't follow all the people. So now display requires at least one filtering step, and then another display ranking step. That is an algorithm! — PolitiTweet.org

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@c5qZaSYipHssbwR @mayur7garg (Again, this all really depends on the license) — PolitiTweet.org

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@adotfrank I do not see any connection between releasing the ranking algo code under some OSS license and "being able to inspect how tweets are highlighted" since there's no guarantee it's the production code at all — PolitiTweet.org

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@ngriffin_uk What tin? It all depends on the license if any — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhavalpatel @chang_koo Sure. At any moment, tens of thousands of entries flood the database at the same timestamp. Which ones are you going to be shown? — PolitiTweet.org

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We are hiring a SENIOR EDITORIAL ENGINEER to build cool story experiences about technology, culture, and our feelings about both. You'll get to work with one of the best art and design teams around. (And me!) Apply! https://t.co/An5hoALbpv — PolitiTweet.org

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Today on Decoder: EFF executive director Cindy Cohn on fighting for our rights online when big corporations have more power than ever https://t.co/L471vGP5OE https://t.co/87SyVxPbVL — PolitiTweet.org

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@krall12 Your choices are standard copyright protection, public domain, or one of many open-source licenses. That’s it. MIT is just one choice — PolitiTweet.org

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@c5qZaSYipHssbwR Depends on the license! — PolitiTweet.org

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@chang_koo Displaying a list of entries in chronological order requires an algorithm — PolitiTweet.org

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I am going to die on this hill, alone. It is my hill and I love it here — PolitiTweet.org

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You all know that “making the algorithm open-source” doesn’t mean anything, right? Twitter can publish the ranking algo code right now, just like a book. “Open source” refers to several copyright licenses that would allow other people to use that code. Which no one’s gonna do. — PolitiTweet.org