No, because selling food to a conspiracy theorist doesn't harm anyone. Giving them a platform to spread dangerous misinformation does hurt people. E.g. the Bret Weinstein fan who didn't get vaccinated and later died of Covid.
You would still need to change the current regulations for that to occur, though. All Terms of Service contracts for social media companies currently include a number of "in [company]'s sole discretion", which means they would not be subject to trial court judgement.
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So at a minimum you would be asking for a law that said social media companies "may not apply their own discretion" or something similar, which is quite similar to saying they no longer have the power to censor, etc.?
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Not exactly, they'd still have the right to censor - whether that be porn, gore, or vaccine conspiracies or something - but they wouldn't be able to pick and choose who they apply those rules to.
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