[Mirioron]

You can twist the Constitution in both directions.

You could say that the value of free speech is so important to society that it is codified on the Constitution. These companies that become big enough platforms should respect that value.

You could also say that the Constitution provides free speech protections to everyone. These companies should benefit from those same protections, thus the government shouldn't be able to interfere what these companies publish.

[likeclockwork]

I defy anyone to write a rule with any kind of specificity for the first case.

User count? Great, while the user count is < N the platform is moderated and popular. As soon as the user count exceeds N it's instantly a cesspool of spam and porn. Then what, it bleeds users and drifts back into the first category again? They're going to write subjective distinctions on the content of the speech into the law to differentiate between spam, porn, porn-spam, and political speech?

It doesn't work! If it could work, please, anyone who reads this comment: Many of us are programmers here, propose a rule that doesn't fall apart.

The second interpretation is at least consistent, even if it does protect corporations.

If Twitter is the devil just leave Twitter, no one has to use it. Gab exists. We have no legal right to access the people who are on Twitter.

[Mirioron]

>If it could work, please, anyone who reads this comment: Many of us are programmers here, propose a rule that doesn't fall apart.

Legislation has an easy out here: "you'll know it when you see it." Courts would decide and they already need to decide on these distinctions.

>If Twitter is the devil just leave Twitter, no one has to use it. Gab exists. We have no legal right to access the people who are on Twitter.

There's also no reason why the government has to give special protections to Twitter and other sites like it.

[tigershark]

How on earth adding a small disclaimer at the bottom of trump lies to prevent misinformation on the electoral process is against free speech?