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Originally Posted by woj
true, but given that twitter is a major communication tool, it's debatable if they should have the right to censor who uses, or what is said using that tool...
it's kinda like if ATT would censor who you can make phone calls to, or what you say on the phone... "we listened on your call, we don't like what you said, so we are disconnecting your service!"
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There are a couple of big differences. First, I would be paying for ATT's service whereas Twitter is free. Second, my phone call between me and a friend (or whoever I am talking to) is a private phone conversation whereas Twitter is used to broadcast to a large audience.
If a phone company said they were listening to my private phone conversations and didn't like my political positions or my positions or race or any other issue and they were cutting me off, I would think that is wrong. If I used my phone to call into a live radio show and then went off on a racist rant that was broadcast on the air and ATT decided, upon hearing my rant, that they no longer wanted me as a customer, I wouldn't have a problem with that.