Comment Re:Another unconstitutional law out of Texas (Score 1) 469
It might actually be fair to view and regulate the social networks exactly like public telecom utilities:
- they are primarily for communication
- they benefit (and suffer) from network externalities, which means the space will inevitably be dominated by large players
- refusal of service has increasing potential for negative impact on users as the networks become more integral to commerce, employment, and other aspects of day-to-day life
I'm not sure exactly what the rules should be, but there must be something more just and reasonable than "Zuck's way or the highway."
And here's an even larger question about the new political dynamics: have regular people not been relegated to second-class citizenship behind first-class corporate "persons" that the Bill of Rights was never intended to protect?