U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
I do think there&#x27;s a rationale middle of the road here. Hear me out.<p>I think if you provide a service that basically creates a free public sphere, and you don&#x27;t charge for it, it makes sense to consider what you&#x27;re offering a public sphere and that just mean it has to be treated like one, where you should be free to speak up and mobilize peacefully.<p>If social platforms charge a fee, or subscription, then it is a private sphere, and I think platforms should be allowed to do whatever they want in that case.<p>Finally, the constitution only applies to lawful citizens of the US, which means that in order for platforms that would provide a free sphere of discourse, to be excluded from their enforcements, you would need to have performed full know your customers, and proven to the platform you are a real citizen of the US, with regularly having to re-proove that your account is still owned and used only by real citizen of the US. If you didn&#x27;t provide this info and proved your status, the platform should be allowed to apply enforcement, because you could very well be a bot, or a foreigner.<p>Lastly, you should also have to speak non-anonymously, if you don&#x27;t reveal your true identity to others in the public sphere, enforcement would still apply to you, because in a real-life public sphere people are not anonymous either, you should be able to know who is speaking.<p>Lastly, you shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to make it look like you are more than one person, so use of multiple accounts and various pseudonyms if found should also make you eligible for enforcement again.<p>I think with these, it&#x27;s reasonable on both front, prove you&#x27;re a real US citizen, have a single public account that&#x27;s not hiding your identity, go ahead and say what you want unrestricted, you&#x27;re right to free speech applies. Otherwise, it&#x27;s not clear you&#x27;re someone who has a right to free speech, and therefore enforcement should be taking place.