Need that Internet Bill of Rights. This is a message I got back on reddit about initiating a possible class-action lawsuit:
You’re not gonna have much of a case.
They didn’t unlawfully seize your property, they deleted from their servers.
The equal protection clause means everyone gets equal protection under the law, not equal treatment by a company with no (official) government affiliation.
Claiming your right to free speech and to peaceably assemble is likely a non-starter. You can say whatever you want and you can assemble where you want, just not on reddit. ...Admittedly, this is a legal gray area with the current role social media and it being the modern public square and whatnot, and there are obvious policy arguments on your side, but until there’s some legislation regulating social media, (IOB?), there isn’t a legal basis that I know of.
I am not a licensed attorney and this should in no way be construed as competent legal advice.
Attacking reddit and other sites status as a public space will do the trick. They bypass so many legal requirements by hiding behind 'public space free speech' mantra.
If its demomstrated they have a political bias and editorialise their content they become a publisher and legally responsible for all content on the site, not the individual user as it currently stands. Post illegal content then and spez gets the rope
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Smo-Guiver ago
Need that Internet Bill of Rights. This is a message I got back on reddit about initiating a possible class-action lawsuit:
You’re not gonna have much of a case.
They didn’t unlawfully seize your property, they deleted from their servers.
The equal protection clause means everyone gets equal protection under the law, not equal treatment by a company with no (official) government affiliation.
Claiming your right to free speech and to peaceably assemble is likely a non-starter. You can say whatever you want and you can assemble where you want, just not on reddit. ...Admittedly, this is a legal gray area with the current role social media and it being the modern public square and whatnot, and there are obvious policy arguments on your side, but until there’s some legislation regulating social media, (IOB?), there isn’t a legal basis that I know of.
I am not a licensed attorney and this should in no way be construed as competent legal advice.
LostandFound ago
Attacking reddit and other sites status as a public space will do the trick. They bypass so many legal requirements by hiding behind 'public space free speech' mantra.
If its demomstrated they have a political bias and editorialise their content they become a publisher and legally responsible for all content on the site, not the individual user as it currently stands. Post illegal content then and spez gets the rope