{"id":517469,"date":"2021-05-17T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517469"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:51:12","slug":"twitter-taken-to-task-amid-court-case-alleging-it-worked-with-mass-govt-to-silence-senate-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-taken-to-task-amid-court-case-alleging-it-worked-with-mass-govt-to-silence-senate-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter taken to task amid court case alleging it worked with Mass. govt. To silence Senate candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-taken-to-task-amid-court-case-alleging-it-worked-with-mass-govt-to-silence-senate-candidate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2407572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2407572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jeff Chiu\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:18 AM PT \u2013 Monday, May 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A federal judge is sending out signals he may take Twitter to task over its designation as a \u201cprivate entity\u201d after the platform banned a Massachusetts Senate candidate. In <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/another-key-order\/Another%20Key%20Order\/mode\/2up\">a recent memorandum<\/a> filed by Judge Mark Wolf, he laid out that Twitter may be considered a state actor if government officials have compelled it to do certain actions.<\/p>\n<p>This all stems from a case in which Dr. V. A. Shiva, who ran in the Massachusetts 2020 Senate election, had his Twitter account suspended for casting doubt on the results of the presidential election. He later filed a lawsuit claiming his account was deleted at the behest of employees working under Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government of Massachusetts contacted Twitter and I saw that in a story\u2026they were talking about the fact that I was supposedly spreading election misinformation, that\u2019s their opinion, by sharing the fact that they deleted ballot images,\u201d stated Dr. Shiva.<\/p>\n<p>This could spell trouble for the heavily criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/cda230\">Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act<\/a>. The act shields social media companies from lawsuits regarding the content published on their platforms, effectively allowing them to silence any forms of speech they want.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Federal Judge Orders Twitter to Testify in Court in Historic First Amendment Lawsuit.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3cd6F1hgObY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shiva said the links between Twitter and the government are apparent, claiming Twitter has built a special portal so that government officials can flag certain tweets they take issue with for any reason. He noted this lawsuit is about more than politics. It\u2019s about protecting the sanctity of freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur lawsuit goes beyond left or right,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt goes to the heart of what this country is suppose to be about: freedom of speech. That\u2019s what this country was founded on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court hearing is set for May 20.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fbi-reclassifies-2017-congressional-baseball-shooting-as-incident-of-domestic-terrorism\/\">FBI Reclassifies 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting As Incident Of Domestic Terrorism<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jeff Chiu\/AP Photo) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 7:18 AM PT \u2013 Monday, May 17, 2021 A federal judge is sending out signals he may take Twitter to task over its designation as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278293,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"Twitter taken to task amid court case alleging it worked with Mass. govt. 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