[HN Gopher] The First Amendment Doesn't Protect Big Tech's Censo...
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       The First Amendment Doesn't Protect Big Tech's Censorship
        
       Author : Bostonian
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2021-08-01 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | cblconfederate wrote:
       | while the argument here is that they are common carriers, from
       | outside it looks more like US big tech is like other media
       | producers. Except, instead of producing content to push their
       | worldviews, they are shaping the content produced en masse by the
       | crowd in order to push their message. The semantics are the same,
       | even if the mechanism is diffeerent. The US seems to be in a bad
       | spot under the hegemony of big tech, because they take advantage
       | of this period of legal vaccum. The rest of the world is a bit
       | more lucky because big tech doesn't have immediate interests
       | there currently. But in any case it feels wrong that FB & google
       | are not subject to the same legal duties as TV
        
       | Bostonian wrote:
       | ungated: https://archive.is/noUSC
        
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