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Do you believe the electric company should be able to choose not to provide you with electricity if you express an opinion with which the owners of that company
by rufus_foreman 4y ago
Do you believe the electric company should be able to choose not to provide you with electricity if you express an opinion with which the owners of that company disagree? That would be an example of the owners of the electric company asserting their property rights.
Might there be situations where property rights need to be weighed against other considerations?
- epakai 4y agoWe have established norms for these situations. Utilities are one special case. Common carriers another. Social media is neither of these. I don't rely on it to sustain my life, nor access government services. If we're going to regulate social media it would be more akin to newspapers or broadcasting.
- rufus_foreman 4y ago>> Social media is neither of these You are committing the fallacy of begging the question. Whether social media is a common carrier is precisely the matter up for debate. >> We have established norms for these situations There is a process by which norms are established and what is going on now is part of that process.
- triceratops 4y agoThis debate is pretty old already. The analogue to electric companies is ISPs, not social media companies. Social media companies are analogous to appliance companies. GE or Whirlpool are within their rights to stop selling you fridges because they disagree with you politically. ISPs aren't treated as common carriers at the moment, and these laws were enacted by the same political party that treats this as a free speech issue. So I have trouble taking seriously any politician who supports such laws. They're hypocrites; pure and simple.