CAROME: And, in fact, as to Your Honor's question about could a First Amendment speaker choose by gender, or age, or something like that, in fact -- I mean Twitter would never, ever, ever do that; it's totally contrary to everything it does… [But] does the First Amendment provide that protection? Absolutely it does.
Okay then.
Carome is no first-year associate who misspoke under pressure. His biography describes him as "the nation’s preeminent advocate in litigation concerning Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the federal law that shields operators of online platforms from liability pertaining to publishing third-party content.” He is one of the lawyers helping defend Twitter from Donald Trump’s lawsuit against it.
This is Twitter’s view of its rights.
Are you okay with that? Should anyone be?
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