Twitter Is Wrong for Censoring and Fact Checking

&gt; A platform that chooses what is “right” and “wrong” is a platform that oversteps the their authority and breaks the bond between itself, the internet and its users. We don’t have to go too far in history to see what happens when a platform, body of people, are given that level power.<p>Ah, the old slippery slope argument. Whether or not Twitter has a responsibility to fact check tweets, they absolutely have a right to do so.<p>Its too bad the author didn&#x27;t give some examples to back up this boldly stated opinion

Something similar recently happened on the BBC where the presenter of Newsnight unilaterally decided that her opinion on a political story was important to the viewing public.

Be careful what you wish for:<p>Facebook applies dubious “false info” fact-check label to Patriot Act video <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23356373" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23356373</a>

Twitter is like a homeowner removing graffiti.<p>Your right not to be forced to publish someone else&#x27;s words is a <i>more important</i> application of the first amendment than someone else&#x27;s right to force you to publish their words.

Sure, but if you&#x27;re going to say that Twitter should not do any fact checking, then they have to hold all users to the same ToS. Twitter is clearly not holding Trump to the same standard as everyone else for &#x27;news-worthiness&#x27; reasons, but that means Twitter needs to then do some other sort of policing.

It absolutely is not.<p>If you&#x27;re a major figure in international politics intentionally spouting actual lies, then your lies should be exposed.<p>If you&#x27;re encouraging violence your posts on a private medium then that private company has every right to remove that content from their privately owned platform.<p>This post said that they randomly &quot;decided&quot; to start enforcing the policies. They&#x27;ve been enforcing them on everyone, just not Trump because he has demonstrated time and again that he will threaten and penalize any company or organization that doesn&#x27;t act as a completely subordinate organization to him personally.<p>Twitter has clearly had enough and decided to make him aware that he isn&#x27;t a special and unique snowflake. He doesn&#x27;t get any special treatment. He doesn&#x27;t get to encourage violence. He doesn&#x27;t get to outright lie to the public.<p>If he doesn&#x27;t like those rules he can go off to 4chan, or dailystormer, or wherever else he feels sufficiently safe and coddled.