Republicans, who opposed common carrier status for ISPs in the net neutrality debate, now want social media platforms to be treated like “public utilities”
Washington Post : Tweets: @viacristiano , @sayreevan , @jeffjarvis , @adamthierer , @karlbode , @karlbode , @willoremus , and @aclu Tweets: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : New: How did the GOP, which vehemently opposed common carrier standards for ISPs, come to embrace them for social media? I dug into the roots of the party's surging push to regulate tech firms over claims of “censorship”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @washingtonpost Evan Swarztrauber / @sayreevan : Well done and thought-provoking piece from @viaCristiano on how the #NetNeutrality discussion has extended to other layers of the Internet stack. 🧵Some thoughts: https://twitter.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : And here is an object lesson in the dangers of legal academics idly speculating about limiting rights. https://twitter.com/... Adam Thierer / @adamthierer : .@viaCristiano considers how it is that so many conservatives came to favor Net neutrality and heavy-handed common carriage regulations for digital media. That's something I've spent a lot of time writing about myself. A few of those essays & key takeaways... https://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : they want to force social media to carry race-baiting political propaganda because it's all the party has (aside from cheating) in the face of unfavorably shifting demographics and an aging electorate all of this stuff👇 is just intellectual stage dressing to justify that https://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : they didn't care about “net neutrality” because it was about monopolies ripping consumers off they care about “big tech” because they want to perpetuate race-baiting political propaganda across social media they have no coherent, consistent principles or ethics hope that helps https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : almost like there's no ideological consistency here except to protect the companies you like and punish the ones you don't https://twitter.com/... @aclu : Today, we and @ACLUTx have joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court urging the court to block a Texas law which would prohibit social media platforms from moderating users' posts due to their content.