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[EuchreJack]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/31/tech/supreme-court-texas-social-media-ruling/index.html
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[King Zultan]

I've never used social media and I feel I'm better off never trying it.

[MaxTheFox]

I mostly just lurk on Twitter. I use it for news.

[Strongpoint]

Twitter is my social network of choice. A good place to get news quickly and see a nice spread of opinions. Also, It isn't censored like Facebook.

I usually keep my opinions to myself there because... Because saying anything results in me being blocked by someone, leaving me without an ability to (conveniently) read people I disagree with but consider it to be a useful source of information. Of course, Twitter being Twitter, staying silent isn't enough to not get blocked, people started using scripts to block users who follow a particular user(s)

[Starver]

I count this sort of place[1] as the limit to my 'social' media presence. In fact, I'm probably more social here than IRL, though I'm strictly more asocial than antisocial even in the most critical assessments, beyond possibly the unwieldy hedge that I dubiously share with various bounding neighbours even more than I share such useless facts with yourselves!

I pick and choose my platforms. Yes, almost anybody can read this (and anybody who cares to can work out how to reply to it) but the whole rather blanket-like Twitterverse just doesn't appeal to me. I got the true "everyone everywhere" thing out of my system back in the old days of Usenet (for the contemporary idea of "everyone", but otherwise pretty much also "everywhere") before the incursion of AOL, WebTV, GoogleGroups, etc made it as much an unregulated (and virtually unlimited) Twitter as anything else between that point and the real Twitter became as seemingly ubiquitous.

(I only actually fell off Usenet when an ISP change caused loss of access to the easy feed, much too niche a thing for the new system to provide as standard, and too much effort to establish a third-party gateway that wasn't Google, or reliant upon consistent access to the local academic network and servers...)

No, don't expect to see me on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, SteamForums[2], Geocities, FIDOnet, InterMUD, Wikia, 4chan, Grindr, Mumsnet, etc... Or at least don't expect to realise that I'm also on any of these... If you think I am, it's very probably not me you're looking at, at all...



[1] There are others, I'm afraid to admit, but I'm cheating upon you with other fora under completely different names and even slightly different styles of participation. Yes, I'm a bit of a love-rat, I'm afraid.

[2] Did make an account there, for DF reasons, but until I bought something I had no posting priviledges and I just didn't yet have the yen to do that (even if I could have had the ¥!) so... lapsed. And now the necessary login details are stuck on an older device, as well...

[MaxTheFox]

I mostly use Discord (all my online friends are there), Reddit (I lurk there but don't really post), and Twitter (same), this is the only old-school forum I really use. I don't use Facebook or anything.

[heydude6]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/31/tech/supreme-court-texas-social-media-ruling/index.html
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Wow.

Regardless of how you feel about the concept of free speech in general, this is just another showcase of the blatant corruption that's going on within the supreme court. It's almost like the right-wing equivalent of the Roe-v-wade repeal. They're not even trying to come up with a legal justification for it this time, which is very troubling.

It reminds me too much of late-democratic Rome.

[EuchreJack]

...maybe I better go through that decision, just in case anyone is confused by it.
I'm not saying you should like or dislike it, but I want to make sure everyone understand it, to the best of my limited ability.

First, Texas passes a law that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms.
The state (Texas) argued that HB 20 does not violate the First Amendment because the law seeks to regulate tech platforms' conduct toward their users, not the companies' speech, and that it seeks to designate them as "common carriers" akin to railroads and phone companies.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube then requested the Supreme Court prevent that law from taking effect until the Supreme Court can decide on it.
By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from the tech industry to block a lower court order that would have allowed the law to take hold, pending legal challenges.
This is NOT a Final Decision by the Supreme Court, although it could hint at what the final decision might be.

As for the actual Judges:
In an unusual alignment the five justices in the majority were Chief Justice John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan was joined by conservative justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, who would have denied the request.

The Right was split 50/50 on this one.

I'm not exactly sure how this amounts to "blatant corruption".  It's a NEW law and a reasonably new legal theory, and the Supreme Court said "Hey now, let's look at this a bit before forcing this down Big Tech's throat".  One judge could flip, and the Texan law will likely force Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc to revise how they operate.

There is no legal justification because it is not final decision.  It would GREAT if the Judges explained themselves, but not required at this stage of the proceedings.

[Dunamisdeos]

I think social media needs to be able to moderate its content.

The equivalent would be passing a law that says, for example, Fox News needs to provide air time to people they don't want to run, because those people want air time and denying them is tantamount to censorship.

Social media platforms need to have the same rights to moderate their content as any other media firm. Just because I want to use it for my own purposes does not mean I have a right to force those companies to host me.

[King Zultan]

Who needs social media when we have this forum, also I just realized that this the only place I talk to people since I don't really talk to anyone in RL.

[Magmacube_tr]

Who needs social media when we have this forum, also I just realized that this the only place I talk to people since I don't really talk to anyone in RL.

Yeah, just seal of the entrance. Who needs sunlight?

[voliol]

Who needs social media when we have this forum, also I just realized that this the only place I talk to people since I don't really talk to anyone in RL.

Yeah, just seal of the entrance. Who needs sunlight?

Once Dwarf Fortress gets long-distance telepathy magic Dwarven internet it will be able to fully emulate the DF player experience.

[Starver]

UristMcHunter cancels hunting for vermin: Posting catdwarf fanart to the InterFort

[MaxTheFox]

I want that law to get shot down because I like it when the far-right gets censored online. It delegitimizes them.

[Strongpoint]

I want that law to get shot down because I like it when the far-right gets censored online. It delegitimizes them.

Do you like when far-lefts get censored online?