California court rules Twitter can ban users, rejects appeal by writer banned for ‘hateful’ tweets about transgender women
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/02/15/ca-court-rules-twitter-can-ban-users-rejects-appeal-by-writer-banned-for-hateful-tweets-about-transgender-women/
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court ruled that Twitter had the right to ban a Canadian writer for her “hateful” tweets about transgender women, court records show.
The 42-page published opinion by the First District Appellate Court, issued late last month, upholds the dismissal of a 2019 lawsuit by Meghan Murphy, a writer, journalist and founder of the Canadian-based website Feminist Current. Murphy was banned from Twitter for tweets that referred to a transgender woman as “a man” — in a post that tagged her — and accused her of extortion for filing complaints against estheticians who refused to perform a Brazilian wax.