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The first amendment never anticipated the public square to be privately owned. Unfortunately I feel things will have to get much worse before people start liste
by krona 6y ago
The first amendment never anticipated the public square to be privately owned. Unfortunately I feel things will have to get much worse before people start listening to the adults in the room again, and enact sensible reforms.
- goto11 6y agoWhat would sensible reforms looks like in your opinion?
- throwaway3699 6y agoPeople should have legal rights to contest bans of any kind, plus some controls to make sure you don't lose your private data (e.g. emails, chats) attached to your account when banned. We don't want to make it expensive to moderate, but false positives should not go unresolved. This tips the balance a bit more in favour of consumers.
- Goronmon 6y agoPeople should have legal rights to contest bans of any kind... Without regulations on "allowed" reasons for bans, or some standard of proof, then a company can just respond to the contest with "Because we wanted to." and then what?
- eplanit 6y agoRepeal section 230 protections.... govern them like utility companies...
- theandrewbailey 6y agoThere is a case precedent of a privately owned public space being subject to the First Amendment. Who knows if that would hold up when applied to the internet, something about holding state-level powers... if the platform was declared as a monopoly, would that apply? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Community_Access_Corp._v._Halleck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Community_Access_Cor...
- mannykannot 6y agoWhen the first amendment was written, the only organized means of widely disseminating information were the government, religious organizations, and private publishers. The last two, of course, were regarded as a vital balance to the first, but (as far as I know) no-one suggested that the freedoms that came to be enumerated in the amendment required these two channels to be compelled to disseminate whatever screed some arbitrary person came up with. The Federalist Papers, for example, were published because the owners of several newspapers chose to do so.