# So Facebook and Twitter decide to be Publishers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 15, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006 "2020-10-15T12:15:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006/82 "2022-12-03T12:21:47Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> Gym Jordan: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO SEE HUNTER BIDEN’S COCK!

[https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1598884353798389760](https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1598884353798389760)

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006/83 "2022-12-04T01:18:08Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> Internal company documents were provided to investigative reporter Matt Taibbi

Bill Kristol’s neoconservative site The Bulwark is not impressed.

> **[No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden’s Dick Pic on...](https://www.thebulwark.com/no-you-do-not-have-a-constitutional-right-to-post-hunter-bidens-dick-pic-on-twitter/)**
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> Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi’s First Amendment follies.

> 1. Why MAGA Republicans and Elon Musk are so adamant that people be able to post photos of Hunter’s johnson is something that should probably be explored with their respective preachers or psychiatrists, but it is certainly not a matter for constitutional scholars or litigators. While [Mr. Lisbon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/characters/nm0000249) from the _Virgin Suicides_ may derive a depraved type of happiness from publishing pictures of other people’s genitals on a private company’s public bulletin board without the approval of those pictured, the First Amendment does not bestow upon him the right to prevent the company from taking down the offending material.
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> To sum up what we learned: Big penis, little news, First Amendment not under threat.
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> Musk and Taibbi have promised more editions of the “Twitter Files” in the coming days, maybe next time they won’t come up so limp.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006/84 "2022-12-04T10:29:58Z")

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Read that Lauren Boebert has threatened subpoenas in this thing so I wanted to rush here and place my stake of ownership on the pun ‘subpenis’, tyvm.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006/85 "2022-12-06T14:00:02Z")

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> [@eenerms](#):
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> activity silencing The press

> <https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/1024567665094930432>

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