Avi K: Various social media platforms operate with various exemptions from federal law and benefits that were conferred based on implied public benefits or expansive readings of the public interest standard in the underlying statute. These go beyond the much lamented Section 230 issues that Trump ranted about in the final few weeks of his campaign. Late this week, after the rather bizarre attack by the Reddit Mob on Gamestop and other short positions held by hedge funds in a bunch of public traded stocks, there were cries of “gevalt” from the usual suspects demanding “regulatory accountability” whatever that means. The FCC, under its prior Chairman, had debated and rejected the notion of regulating ISPs and even some social medial sites as “public utilities”given that they had morphed (albeit unintentionally) into “essential services”
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