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Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:14AM (#22354107)
First amendment protections against compelled speech might interfere with this heavily editorialized "warning".
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by another-dave on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:28AM (#22354397)
I thought that Facebook's stance was that it was a platform not a publisher? If you have no editorial oversight or opinion on the content you publish (cf. not taking down known false political advertising) can you then claim "free speech"?
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by jakear on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:19AM (#22354137)
Similar warnings are required on cigarettes, and there isn’t much difference between the two.
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:28AM (#22354164)
Did you read blunderkid's comment? He's much farther into "opinion" territory. I don't think he's stated a single fact.
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by allovernow on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:25AM (#22354152)
When did the court rule that cigarettes constituted speech?
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by jakear on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:00AM (#22356947)
They didn’t. They ruled corporations don’t have much free speech when it comes to product advertising and declarations of potential harm their products may cause their users.
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by avocado4 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:46AM (#22354224)
> there isn’t much difference between the two

Can you post a link to RCT-based evidence backing this claim? I don't see anything on CDC website or any professional medical organization about Facebook being as harmful as cigarettes.

Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets by jonathankoren on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:51AM (#22354246)
Commercial speech is heavily regulated.