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Well, yes and no. Yes, we need regulation if we want to hold people accountable for what they say online. No, in the sense that discriminating between large and
by smoldesu 4y ago
Well, yes and no. Yes, we need regulation if we want to hold people accountable for what they say online. No, in the sense that discriminating between large and small services is a bad idea. Scale has nothing to do with it, smaller services don't deserve to get off scott-free just because they didn't hit 'Twitter-scale' yet.
Again, the biggest issue here is the public misconception that Twitter (or any of the internet) is a benevolent platform. Legislation cannot change that.
- ipaddr 4y agoSmall 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.
- smoldesu 4y agoAt least in America, that's not really how Rule of Law works. At least WRT individual rights like Free Speech.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoThat'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.
- smoldesu 4y agoRule of Law is simply the principle that we cannot apply legal concepts discriminately: https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/overview-rule-law https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a... Nobody is above the law, not the meek nor the mighty.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoSomeone 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.
- chc 4y agoThis 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.