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I agree and we should classify the underlying Internet service providers, that social media providers depends on, as common carriers as well!
Also services like Cloudflare, and email providers like GMail.
Entirely reasonable either they are publishers and thus have free speech and carry full penalties for all the content they allow. Or they are carriers and thus should have no say, but also no risks of content.
If Reddit now has legal liability does Reddit need to moderate All subreddits by themselves? That sounds impossible.
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Also services like Cloudflare, and email providers like GMail.
It's unclear to me that email and CDNs are the kinds of natural monopolies that need to be regulated as common carriers
I agree and we should classify the underlying Internet service providers, that social media providers depends on, as common carriers as well!
Also services like Cloudflare, and email providers like GMail.
Which is to say, they are not at all.
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If you want to post on 4chan, go post on 4chan. Don't turn the rest of the internet into 4chan so you can force gross ideas and content onto everyone else.
we should put speed limiters on cars so they can't go faster than 5 mph and endanger someone else
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Probably because his ideas and opinions are actively censored. It's no secret that social media has a heavy bias.
both sides think "social media" is biased against them; I honestly could not guess which way you think the bias goes
I agree and we should classify the underlying Internet service providers, that social media providers depends on, as common carriers as well!
And yet, because this is a party-political issue, you have the Republican Party swearing up and down that ISPs are not (presumably because common-carrier status implies net neutrality and this is unpopular with donors or something?) but that social networks are (because they exhibit "bias").
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If you want to post on 4chan, go post on 4chan. Don't turn the rest of the internet into 4chan so you can force gross ideas and content onto everyone else.
we should put speed limiters on cars so they can't go faster than 5 mph and endanger someone else
Entirely reasonable either they are publishers and thus have free speech and carry full penalties for all the content they allow. Or they are carriers and thus should have no say, but also no risks of content.
How would this even work on Reddit? Currently user moderators control all the user made subreddits. If Reddit now has legal liability does Reddit need to moderate All subreddits by themselves? That sounds impossible.
This would be a terrible precedent. These are private companies, who is the government to tell them how to operate without funding them. If you don't like what you read, or if you read things that are not true that is on you as an individual to make appropriate choices. The government shouldnt meddle with social networks. They are just that, social and voluntary.
Private companies are regulated all the time. Look up the rules for any utility or communications company. They banned politicians, so that's going to get laws passed.