[zozbot234]

The First Amendment expressly provides for freedom of the press, which was the earliest form of mass speech and the one most directly comparable to publishing something to your "1000 Twitter followers". The only form of "mass speech" that's broadly government-regulated in the U.S. is communication that's broadcasted via the radio spectrum, which is inherently a scarce resource.

[Dylan16807]

> the earliest form of mass speech and the one most directly comparable to publishing something to your "1000 Twitter followers"

But that's not what they're calling mass speech.

It's not helpful to take someone's post and change the definitions out from under them.

To rephrase it without that term: Printing press scale speech is great. This new ability that twitter gives us, trivially reaching millions, was not foreseeable hundreds of years ago, is causing problems, and should be treated differently.

[zozbot234]

Something that's published to "a million followers" will attract criticism very quickly if at all merited. Remember Trump's Twitter feed? That's the scale you're talking about.

[Dylan16807]

Now that's an actual counterargument to OP's idea.

But I don't know how much those criticisms help.