Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules

Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by lugged on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:17PM (#27780175)

> So there's some popularity point where after people use a platform to talk enough times, the platform is no longer allowed to moderate the speech on it? Why?

Yes, see monopoly.

Why? See tragedy of the commons.

> If I operate the world's biggest single-political-party discussion forum, is there a point where the forum is now legally compelled to host the other political party's opinions?

The point in which you become monopolies that actively collude with other monopolies to shut down alternative platforms enabling discourse you disagree with politically is probably a good bar.

Then again, I think all censorship is immoral so basically there is no bar in my view on the matter.

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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by warkdarrior on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:56AM (#27780586)

> > So there's some popularity point where after people use a platform to talk enough times, the platform is no longer allowed to moderate the speech on it? Why?

> Yes, see monopoly.

It's not clear that a large platform is automatically a monopoly. For example, Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, and TikTok coexist.

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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by lugged on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:05AM (#27784429)

So instead of acknowledging the argument you want to focus on a generalized use of the word monopoly.

Replace it with "Megacorp" and you have the same argument.

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