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🗓️ 13 January 2021
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It finally happened. Twitter finally suspended Trump’s account. After the capitol riots on January 6, tech companies such as Google, Apple, and Twitter took the unprecedented step of invoking their first amendment rights and removing several users from their various platforms. I just want to remind everyone that the 1958 Supreme Court Decision in NAACP v. Alabama outlined an implied part of the first amendment—that of Freedom of Association.
Is this big tech censorship? Are private companies silencing conservative voices or merely deciding who they want to do business with? Is Twitter the new townsquare or just another site among a sea of websites.
Here to help us figure some of this out is Dr. Alexi Drew. Drew is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Policy Institute at King’s College London. On Monday she published the policy paper “Disinformation Kills. Now what are we going to do about it?”
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1:39.0 | Well, it finally happened. |
1:40.5 | Twitter has finally suspended Trump's account. After the capital riots on January 6, |
1:44.8 | tech companies such as Google, Apple, and Twitter took the unprecedented step of |
1:48.9 | invoking their First Amendment rights and removing several users from their |
1:52.1 | various platforms. |
1:53.3 | And I just want to remind everyone that the 1958 Supreme Court decision in N-W-A-C-P versus Alabama |
1:59.2 | outlined an implied part of the First Amendment, that of freedom of association. |
2:04.0 | But is this big tech censorship? |
2:06.3 | Are private companies silencing conservative voices or merely deciding who they want to do |
2:10.9 | business with? |
2:12.2 | And what part does |
2:13.3 | disinformation and the very real consequences we saw play out on |
2:18.2 | January 6 play into that. Is Twitter the New Town Square or just another site on among a sea of |
2:24.0 | websites. Well here to help us figure out some of this is Dr Alexi Drew. Drew is a |
2:29.6 | postdoctoral research associate at the Policy Institute at Kings College London and on Monday she published the policy paper with the eye- grabbing headline |
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