Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional
by threatofrain on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:48PM
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If Twitter is like a public entity managing a town square, as are the rest of these companies, then what happens to our expectations of privacy? Should FB be transparent? And NextDoor? Then the public should be able see the data.
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Re:The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional
by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:44PM
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> If Twitter is like a public entity managing a town square,
This confuses two different uses of 'public'.
Twitter is a publicly held company - it's shares are held by the people who bought them.
Town square implies Gov owned property, that is set aside for the use of everyone.
> Should FB be transparent? And NextDoor? Then the public should be able see the data.
I would very much like to see public-manipulation data be made available. To mandate this w/o causing broader harms would require a great deal of time and deliberation by people who are actually qualified to do so.