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Think like a legislator. How do you write this regulation?

> [shut down] just large / public sites that require this sort of moderation

Let’s say I start a restaurant review website that allows comments and photos to be uploaded. It does modest business for a while, I now have 50 employees. I’m following the law because my site isn’t big enough to violate this “no user content for big prominent websites” law.

Soon, it becomes big, like a major competitor to Yelp, and I’ve got 1,000 employees. But suddenly, this new law kicks in that says that I have to stop accepting uploads because my site is too high profile. Now, I lay everyone off and go out of business.

This just isn’t a workable solution, at least not in the particular way you’re proposing it be constructed.

And really, you’re asking the second largest advertiser on the web (Facebook), a Fortune 50 company, to just pack up its bags and shut down.

It’s not like I love Facebook or anything, but I’m sure their 45,000 employees wouldn’t be happy about that.



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