Re:Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of re...
by naasking on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @11:14AM
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> No one has ever had a “freedom to demand others broadcast my personal speech at great technical and financial cost”.
Common carriers cannot moderate message contents or discriminate based on senders/receivers. Social media now does both, but they could arguably be regulated under common carrier laws. They are of course not obligated to do this for free, but that's their business model.
We had a recent discussion on this from a paper written by a legal scholar, so I suggest you check it out:
Common carriers cannot moderate message contents or discriminate based on senders/receivers. Social media now does both, but they could arguably be regulated under common carrier laws. They are of course not obligated to do this for free, but that's their business model.
We had a recent discussion on this from a paper written by a legal scholar, so I suggest you check it out:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762145