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 …
The first part of that paper discusses First Amendment law and how American lawyers deliberately imported those speech norms into American companies. The second part is about how they are like intermediary governors and basically moderate for public image, business imperatives.
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I shall read!
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(Intrigued because I suppose I see 1a as a somewhat alien argument compared to other safe harbors, since it’s particularly American and formed around an agreement between government-rather than a private entity-and the people)
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