After the Great Deplatforming: Reconsidering the Shape of the First Amendment

https://lpeproject.org/blog/after-the-great-deplatforming-reconsidering-the-shape-of-the-first-amendment/

by Multicomp • 5 years ago

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Multicomp• 5 years ago

Saw this on techmeme.com and it was a new take to me, figured HN might want to see this too.

The case in TFA, Marsh, feels like it is relevant here. It feels like a scaled up version of "your rights are absolute right to the point that they infringe on someone else's".

So, Facebook or Titter or Parler or Gab can use their private platforms to regulate what is said there, but this power grows weaker in porportion to the number of people that are on the platform (some probably due to network effects).

If Marsh were applied now, maybe FB etc at that scale could be an ungovernable mess, forcing them to go back to a chronological only listing of your friends' posts. Or maybe they split into Geocities-style separate communities with federated xmpp messaging?

So far, I don't have answers, just feelings.

After the Great Deplatforming: Reconsidering the Shape of the First Amendment

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