I understand people are upset & worried about crazy insurrectionists right now, but I'll keep repeating that you will absolutely regret passing laws that say "social media cannot allow or amplify" such speech. Because such a law WILL be applied to BLM protesters too...
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Replying to @mmasnick
This is an argument against all laws, though. You may wanna make an argument against this particular idea, but the structure of your argument applies to every single thing we regulate—without exception.
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Replying to @zeynep
I don't think that's necessarily true. In fact, it's not true.
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Replying to @mmasnick
The argument: If we pass a law saying "[some powerful entity] cannot do Y" it will be applied to X. That applies to every single thing we regulate. In fact, people in power *do* try to use laws (too) broadly for almost any law we do pass.
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You are wrong. A law taxing income above 1,000,000 a year more steeply won’t get applied more harshly to the less powerful. The example in Mike’s tweet probably would.
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Replying to @danielnazer @mmasnick
You need to make that argument specifically, though, on why and how, not rely on slippery slope. Just for making the point: "A law taxing income can be used to target the poor, by auditing them to make sure they aren't actually richer."
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You can phrase almost anything that way (it's not even totally false).
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