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I think that works up to a certain scale but it's insufficient if you're Facebook or Twitter.

Now - is Twitch more like those or is it more like "Bob's Forum"?

There is no bright line between Facebook and Bob’s Forum.

There's no bright line between a wheelbarrow and a bulk freighter but even Hellen Keller could tell you they're very different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

There are several bright lines like having an engine.

That's not a really bright line

https://www.homedepot.com/p/YARDMAX-Powered-Wheelbarrow-YD41...

Having a crew isn't a bright line either since two people will often manhandle a single heavy wheelbarrow.

The brightest line is probably that a bulk freighter floats. Still it's a series of small incremental changes all the way from wheelbarrow to mining dump truck (then there's some lines you cross before you get to a bulk freighter) though which IMO still illustrates my point.

We're kind of nit picking here though.

Computer is a job not an object.

English reuses terms, but thus that’s not a wheelbarrow anymore than there are wheelbarrows in a wheelbarrow race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow_race

“A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle...” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow while also saying “Power assisted wheelbarrows are now widely available from a number of different manufacturers.”

TLDR; That’s not yet a wheelbarrow, but it might eventually become one.

> The brightest line is probably that a bulk freighter floats.

Some wheelbarrows will float just because they weigh little enough compared to how much water their bucket displaces. Also, I don't think it stops being a wheelbarrow if you strap a couple of empty barrels to the side (I've done that, when hauling junk across a river).

To head off the obvious rebuttal, you could totally attach wheels (or maybe caterpillar treads) to the bottom of bulk freighter, even if nobody has (probably) bothered to build such thing yet.

When discussing enumerated rights, judicial “strict scrutiny” (to wit: bright line) applies.

What do you mean "bright line"?

The difference is plainly obvious, Bob's forum has <100 users, FB has > 2,800,000,000 users

When discussing enumerated rights, judicial “strict scrutiny” (to wit: bright line) applies. For this case, you must explain why FB gets treated differently just because there are more users. I appreciate the “well duh” but that doesn’t justify adjudicating a suppression of rights for FB.

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