@gfodor Thorny issues for sure… we may have to choose which negative symptoms we are willing to live with. My approach is to minimize the ability of the guys with cages to tell us what we have to or can’t say, and hope the market works the rest out…
@gfodor I think we will have issues foisting the the externalities of maintaining the P. Sq. onto private companies… with also giving them government sanctioned monopolies, a la broadcast tv, which I find to be terribly chilling to speech
@gfodor The MAU minimum distinguishes sites based only that one metric (users), which is likely, at best, an imperfect proxy for what you’d define as a public square… e.g., Are Etsy product review posts part of the pub. sq.? Etsy now has to consider….
@gfodor 1.) Not word games. One censor has guns and cages. 2.) The law effects all applicable sites, not just one’s you’d deem public squares (how do we define which are which?) 3.) 2nd order effect will be to chill speech b/c sites LESS likely to open their forums given risks involved