[mechnesium]

Private entities are horrible at self-regulating. They are equally horrible at creating their own laws to selectively apply to users of their platform, in addition to laws of the location of the user.

This law effectively diminishes the ability of those private entities to enforce their own laws and terms of use. That sounds like a win for regular folks like me and you.

[staticman2]

I don't expect my life will be improved by a brave new world of misinformation- if hacker news was unmoderated for example, there would be nothing on this site than a bunch of nazis high fiving each other all day, it would be worthless to normal people engaged in normal conversations and tech people wouldn't find it worth visiting.

[devwastaken]

Private entities don't have their own laws. They can't summon police to take you away or hand out fines you didn't contract to. Governments can.

If a government has the power to make private entities host user content they don't want then they have overall regulatory power and can go in the opposite direction as well. That's why government has no business regulating private entities for "freedom of speech". Unless you want the government to be your speech.