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diogenescynic on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter to ban political advertising

There's a difference between opinion and facts/lies. Opinion is fine, but when someone is spreading an objective lie (the earth is flat!)... that's where it seems like this is a cop out for Facebook to pretend they can't get involved due to "free speech". Sure, let people share opinions, but not lies and misinformation.

xkjkls on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

Who should adjudicate what is an is not a lie? Twitter’s response is basically “we don’t want to be the ones to do that”

diogenescynic on Nov 1, 2019 | [–]

Same way it works for newspapers and tv and radio.

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