Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I defy anyone to write a rule with any kind of specificity for the first case.

User count? Great, while the user count is < N the platform is moderated and popular. As soon as the user count exceeds N it's instantly a cesspool of spam and porn. Then what, it bleeds users and drifts back into the first category again? They're going to write subjective distinctions on the content of the speech into the law to differentiate between spam, porn, porn-spam, and political speech?

It doesn't work! If it could work, please, anyone who reads this comment: Many of us are programmers here, propose a rule that doesn't fall apart.

The second interpretation is at least consistent, even if it does protect corporations.

If Twitter is the devil just leave Twitter, no one has to use it. Gab exists. We have no legal right to access the people who are on Twitter.



>If it could work, please, anyone who reads this comment: Many of us are programmers here, propose a rule that doesn't fall apart.

Legislation has an easy out here: "you'll know it when you see it." Courts would decide and they already need to decide on these distinctions.

>If Twitter is the devil just leave Twitter, no one has to use it. Gab exists. We have no legal right to access the people who are on Twitter.

There's also no reason why the government has to give special protections to Twitter and other sites like it.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: