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Comment by mido22 | Hacker News Reader

I am kinda confused, facebook was criticized for not weeding out "fake news" (same for twitter/ Instagram not controlling trolling/hate speech), and Cloudflare is criticized for not being content neutral... damned if you do, damned if you don't

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Pretty sure it's different groups complaining.

The ACLU gets plenty of criticism too. Some people don't support the rights the ACLU defends.

I think there's a meaningful difference between a media company (Facebook/Twitter/etc.) and an infrastructure provider.

I expect the electric company to provide electricity to everyone on a non-discriminatory basis. I don't expect publishers to print everything that gets submitted to them.

Could you expand on this a little? I'm confused because the ACLU is not a government organization, they're not part of the infrastructure.

His parent was referring to Cloudflare suspending their services for the Daily Stormer, which was presumably the impetuous for this whole post.

Facebook claims to provide service to 25% of the world population. I think it's worth considering whether they are communication carriers at this point.

Real-world concepts of common carriers are centered around the concept of natural monopolies arising from local effects. That does not take networking effects into account which can work non-locally.

Facebook should be careful about the news they're promoting (in the "trending articles" part). But they should remain neutral when they're acting as a pipe for people's posts.

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