Twitter's online speech norms were created and shaped by lawyers who were deeply knowledgeable of existing First Amendment case law in the U.S. It feels like journalists now want platforms to intentionally deviate from that: https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1598-1670_Online.pdf … https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1029827909987520512 …
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The cases referenced in ~80 page legal paper above are about private businesses like Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL, etc.
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I don't think it prevents them but it certainly opens them up to years of litigation (which the CEO may decide is worth spending money and internal/external political capital on).
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I wish the media reporting on this at least engaged the public on what the existing precedents are, what the existing laws are, and how the U.S. generally has weaker or non-existing legal norms around hate/violent speech and that *that* is what is guiding company behavior.
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