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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by Mikeb85 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:26PM (#23331434)
The law is basically word salad. And the idea of Twitter and other social networks being utilities isn't something I invented.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_public_uti...

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by thephyber on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:55PM (#23332572)
> The law is basically word salad.

I don't disagree.

> the idea of Twitter and other social networks being utilities isn't something I invented

Fair enough. I don't blame you. I just don't think it's easy or reasonable to overload the word "utility" as applied to content, which is exactly why it's currently governed by Section 230 and not Common Carrier.

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