It's not an entirely illogical point
Section 230 basically makes Twitter a town square. Anyone can show up and say anything they want, and it isn't really Twitter's fault. They aren't specifically publishing anyone's speech, they are just letting everyone's voice be heard.
And that works so long as Twitter doesn't limit those voices. When they do so for reasons not specifically named as criminal (or otherwise legally "bad"), they are promoting (or censoring) specific voices based on their own opinions. They have ceased being a town square, and are now a newspaper with an extremely large and permissive "Letters to the Editor" page.
Of course, that all hinges on whether applying a "fact check" link to the speech of a public figure qualifies as any of that. That seems an extremely tenuous argument to make.
It is, however, poor Conservative victimhood gold. It's hard to be a white man in America.
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Posted: 05/28/2020 at 1:28PM