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0 pointsfstrthnscnd4y ago0 comments

> Platforms must be responsible for the content they are hosting, broadcasting, and publishing.

> One to one communications between two people exchanging ideas and having a private discussion is different from mass broadcasting.

The highway is used both by those visiting their friends and those doing mass deliveries. Is it the job of the highway maintenance crew to control for what purpose their network is used?

I would like to know if the above analogy stands.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27994831

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zizee4y ago

The "owner" of the highway is the government, who regulates commercial traffic differently to personal traffic. The government places strict rules on who is allowed to use the highway, and how it is used.

The highway maintenance crew is akin to the person installing racks for CloudFlare.

hackbinary4y ago

Highway are a poor analogy for information broadcast systems in general. Highways are closer to a one to one transmission system rathe than a broadcast system of one to many.

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