Property rights argument for why deplatforming long users should be illegal: "[As with prescriptive easements one] has a right to the mixing of their labor with property.... I put a lot of work into my Twitter account ... tilled the soil, sowed the seeds"https://elaineou.com/2018/08/07/a-lockean-theory-of-digital-property/ …
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P.S. it would be wise for heavily invested users like Jones to pay for custom or "first class user" contracts that are more like a long-term lease than a license, instead of depending on the click-wrap nobody reads that gives the platform all the rights.
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It's hard for dry code to protect against spoofing, because we read names as wet code, and it's hard to have a globally unique yet human-readable name, and hard to protect against spoofers making the initial claim of a name. Legal names are local, hard to socially scale.
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