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0 pointsmytailorisrich6y ago0 comments

The point is that access to many platforms has become important enough that private companies should not be the ones calling the shots. This includes access to service and censorship.

I fear that we have opened the pandora box and now the alternatives are those I mentioned.

> There is more to discrimination law, including "gotchas" like adverse impact.

Not in the UK, unless mandated by law in specific industries.

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mieseratte6y ago

> I fear that we have opened the pandora box and now the alternatives are those I mentioned.

I don't know that we've opened the box so much as we've built or otherwise inherited a system that allows for what we have now. No reason we can't legally preclude social-media companies from excluding based on their arbitrary and capricious criteria.

> Not in the UK, unless mandated by law in specific industries.

I was talking about the US, specifically. Honestly a bit weird to group the two together in the first place, being very different countries.

mytailorisrichOP6y ago

> No reason we can't legally preclude social-media companies from excluding based on their arbitrary and capricious criteria.

And thus social media, and other platforms, are controlled or at least heavily regulated by the government.

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