Small platforms need to be held to a different standard. If you are the global village square platform worth 44 billion you get different rules compared to a wordpress blog with no traffic where you can make comments. Scale matters.
At least in America, that's not really how Rule of Law works. At least WRT individual rights like Free Speech.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:21PM
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That's a tautology, my original comment was pointing out that the law needs to be updated. Pointing out that the current law isn't like that is not interesting.
Rule of Law is simply the principle that we cannot apply legal concepts discriminately: https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...
Nobody is above the law, not the meek nor the mighty.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:39PM
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Someone should go tell that to existing utility companies so they can argue they can't be more highly regulated than other companies.
aka, we already have precedence for this sort of thing.
This is an idiosyncratic understanding of "rule of law." Laws in America routinely discriminate between small and large entities. For example, the FMLA only applies to companies with 50 or more employees.
Again, the biggest issue here is the public misconception that Twitter (or any of the internet) is a benevolent platform. Legislation cannot change that.