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> I think it’s reasonable that government could treat social media companies as privately owned public spaces and add new regulations or requirements. Yes, thi

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  > What do you mean by the "free speech principle” Good point, sorry, I said this like it was some simple concept that everyone understands in the same way. I mean it in the terms of what the UN calls freedom of expression and I think is based on the Ancient Greek origin. [0] That’s not absolute and there’s still debate, but, in my mind, it’s a philosophy that more communication on more topics is ultimately better for improving society and doing great things than less. An application that I think is relevant to this definition is Postel’s Law [1] to be liberal in what’s accepted and conservative in what’s said. And I think part of this is to not try to have a rules based approach of specific banned topics because it ends up being circular, eternal, and nonproductive. So any efforts to get specific rules around this seem to harm groups. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech [1] https://devopedia.org/postel-s-law https://devopedia.org/postel-s-law