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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by rainsford on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:07PM (#32882518)
Even if you subscribe to the viewpoint that Facebook is a "pipe" rather than the speaker, it seems hard to avoid the idea that Facebook's choice of which speech it is a pipe for constitutes free speech by Facebook. Nobody should be confused as to whether a newspaper is the author of letters to the editor, but it has a 1st amendment right to choose which letters to publish.
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by catiopatio on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:14PM (#32882570)
If it is Facebook's speech, and this is equivalent to a newspaper, then why shouldn't we hold Facebook liable for the speech they do choose to publish — just like a newspaper?
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by incompatible on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:29PM (#32883484)
Has the "1st amendment right to choose which letters to publish" in a newspaper ever been tested in a court? Or could it also be challenged by the same kind of legislation, if it didn't apply only to "social media companies with at least 50 million monthly active users"?
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by rayiner on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:50PM (#32883238)
It doesn’t seem that hard to me to say that what Facebook does with millions of messages flowing through its pipes every day is “conduct” not “speech.”

A better foundation for this seems to be property rights—it’s facebook’s pipes, and their business what they do with it.

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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by inkblotuniverse on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:46AM (#32886002)
The water company owns their pipes, and they're not allowed to shut off my supply because of something offensive I said.
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