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Elon Musk's lawyers say that when he falsely calls someone a pedophile on Twitter, that's just an "imaginative attack," protected by the First Amendment, so he can't be sued.
Musk's lawyers also say that everybody reading his tweets knew that he was making things up. And besides, they were tweets and not a Boston Globe expose or a "university press conference," so what did you really expect?
Here's the whole thing -> documentcloud.org/documents/5668…
Musk's lawyers argue that Twitter is basically a garbage fire of misinformation and nobody expects the things they read here to be literally true. They cite two cases over tweets by President Trump, which came to the same conclusion.
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Fascinating story from @ganjansen: Courts grappling with what to make of President Trump's tweets have largely concluded that just because the president says something, even on matters of national security, that doesn't make it so.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
The courts' conclusions – that the president’s statements on national security are not always to be taken literally, or to be trusted – are legal victories for his Justice Department, which has argued that there's no evidence he knows what he's talking about.
As President @realDonaldTrump tweets, his administration has been telling federal courts not to take his public comments at face value. For example ->
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Lawyers for a Russian company charged over election complain that "the Special Counsel has made up a crime that has never been prosecuted before in the history of the United States, and now seeks to make up secret procedures for communicating ex parte to the court."
Lawyers for the Russian company - who are seeking permission to share "sensitive" gov't info with the Russians wonder: "Could the manner in which [Mueller] collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the United States?"
Also, apparently, among the millions of pages of records Mueller's has collected on Russian election interference is a "nude selfie."
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#FOIA response or awful Christmas sweater?
(It's a trick question, because the answer doesn't matter. Either would contribute equally to your understanding of what the government is doing.)
Trying to decide whether this is a better or worse #FOIA metaphor than the fact that an agency just mailed me a blank DVD.
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(Thread) Trump (again) distorts the First Amendment

Raise your hand if you’re tired of Trump & the entire right wing distorting the First Amendment 🙋‍♀️ (Me, too)

Now Trump’s lawyers are in on the act. (No surprise. Fascist leaders always find lawyers willing to support them.)
1/ The National Park Service proposed a rule limiting protest in D.C.
regulations.gov/document?D=NPS…

They want to impose fees and limit where protesters can march, including restricting public areas outside the White House.
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2/Now, in court papers, Trump also argues that disseminating stolen emails (from the DNC hack) was protected by the First Amendment.

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The First Amendment begins with: “Congress shall make no law . . .”
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WAS PETER STRZOK FIRED IN VIOLATION OF HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS? A WILD IRRESPONSIBLE TWITTER SPECULATION

Givin' the people what they want

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/2 We don't know why Peter Strzok was fired. We have only his lawyers' claims. Eventually we may have a memo about his firing, which may or may not tell the truth about why he was fired.

But for the sake of this analysis, let's assume he was fired for anti-Trump texts.
/3 So. Your private employer can fire you for your speech, absent a contractual provision or state or local law that prevents them. Private employers aren't bound by the First Amendment, at least until the Protect Proud Boys' Jobs At The Dollar Store Amendment gets ratified.
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1. On July 17, the House Judiciary Committee held a 3-hour hearing to examine the content filtering practices of social media companies. Executives from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were invited to provide testimony and answer questions from the committee.
2. Over 210 million Americans use social media. Even the Supreme Court called it a Constitutional right. Thus, it's staggering that only a few executives in Silicon Valley decide what 2/3 of America is allowed to talk about. This a growing concern to Congress.
3. So who are the employees at these companies controlling what America is allowed to say? Nobody knows.

What is the process for censoring or banning? Nobody knows.

What training materials do they use? Nobody knows.

Are they men, black, religious, American, etc? Nobody knows.
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(1) Wut?

Twitter censorship is "HERE TO STAY?" [emphasis mine]

The EFF?

What would happen to @jack-azz if he walked down a street & STOPPED people from conversing with each other?

Would he not get arrested?

Violations of First Amendment, much?

dailycaller.com/2018/07/29/twi…
(2) Violations of the 1st Amendment Rights of people of their speeches are a crimes, yes?

Violations of the 1st Amendment Rights of people of free assembly are a crimes, yes?

A telephone company that interferes with phone calls based on political content commits crimes, right?
So, HOW IN THE HELL is it different when Twitter commits THOSE SAME CRIMES?

What sort of "legal angle" is anyone looking for?

@Jack, and #Twitter's #deranged #liberal employees, have COMMITTED CRIMINAL ACTS in numerous violations of the Rights of Twitter users.

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