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> A global communication network that has become telecom infrastructure for all intents and purpose has do a little more justification before it cuts someone off from what is becoming a vital service.

Until the Facebooks and Twitters of the world become legally classified as such, you're making the same mistake of expecting as much from what is legally absolutely no different from the SomethingAwfuls of the world.

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I’m saying those laws should be made. I get that that is not the case presently. Pretending that a network with 2 billion people and the ability to influence national elections is the exact same thing as the phpBB for your Dungeons and Dragons group and it’s fine if there’s no difference in the way they’re regulated is either naive or disingenuous. Laws are not immutable facts of nature that we have no control over. We can create or change them as needed when something new arises that is harming society.

With wacked US politics lately business regulations are just turned on and off as the parties trade control. Laws will probably make it harder to kick off foreign influencers and bots with plausible deniability if it's protecting regular a-holes

He's not making a mistake, he's making an argument.

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