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It doesnt. These people want everyone hosting things online to have to meet some ill defined mystical special status as "publishers" to be able to decide anythi
by rektide 4y ago
It doesnt. These people want everyone hosting things online to have to meet some ill defined mystical special status as "publishers" to be able to decide anything for themselves (with ill-defined requirements/consequences for declaring so) or be forced to host whatever trashy hoi-poi shows up & starts screaming hell. They want to insist platforms have no right to taste or discernment.
Everyone who doesnt qualify for this weird made up non-legal term "publisher" is a "platform", which clearly to these folk (and no one else) implies a public utility subject to complete government regulation that far outstrips any rights of either the company, or the public, either of which maybe perhaps just would never vote with their feat/want to use a so called "platform" which insisted upon letting the shouting braying class into their feeds in the first place.
It's bitter, it's shallow, it's insanely hyper-regulatory to tell people & companies they have to accept private intrusion to support some loudmouth shouting class's "right" to yell at all of us. This right to yell, this particular deranged psycho-world rendition of free speech, trumps all other rights anyone might have
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- bediger4000 4y agoI think that's why the Trump administration tried to distinguish between some "God Given" rights, and rights established some other way. Tensions between, say gun ownership, and private property (No Guns in the bar & grille rules) can be resolved their way.