Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by TheAdamAndChe on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:12PM (#15955993)

Sure, Twitter is currently a private company. However, it's also a major forum used in the expression of speech in our country. At what point is a public website considered a public forum?

If we have a constitutional right to free speech, and the majority of Americans use a certain website for speech, why shouldn't their constitutional rights extend onto that site?

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by linkmotif on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:16AM (#15960740)

> why shouldn't their constitutional rights extend onto that site?

Because their involvement with Twitter is at will, because Twitter is a private institution, and because privacy is scared to our freedom. But mostly perhaps because twitter has not yet been designated a common carrier by the government, which many people are suggesting. I don’t really see twitter as a good fit for that, but then again, I’m not a legal scholar or lawmaker.

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