Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules
by kube-system on Thursday July 08, 2021 @03:40PM
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The cost of an online news publication is even smaller than a social media site, but we don't limit their speech further.
The editorial power of social media sites is kind of nebulous, I guess we'll have a court case that settles this at some point, but I'm not so sure it's clear now.
1. "newspapers are economically finite enterprises" - There is a very real cost involved with printing newspapers, while the cost of hosting a social media post is so small it's not even worth mentioning.
2. "the exercise of editorial judgment is a protected First Amendment activity" - Everything that goes into a newspaper has to pass editorial review, meaning the newspaper controls and is responsible for what is published. Social media does not have that.