In coordination with this Facebook and every other big tech firm which fails to live up to this new standard should have its legal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Act stripped. Facebook no longer acts as a platform. It acts as a publisher. If Facebook wants to be a publisher, it can be a publisher. Which would mean that Facebook would be personally and legally liable for everything posted on their website. Facebook is clearly putting themselves on one side of the political debate. They're entitled to do that as a private company, but if they do want to do that, then they need to be regulated as a political actor. If you ban a bunch of people for partisan reasons in the midst of a presidential campaign season that is election meddling. [More]I don't know if I'd call this a "bill of rights" so much as a proper withholding of elitist exemptions for de facto "in-kind" contributions.
Another approach in tandem with this could be suing for libel. If someone is banned, that is a reputation-damaging accusation that what they have to say is false or hateful, and that results in devastating economic ostracism. I don't imagine it would take that many lawsuits to convince corporate risk managers that a ban had better have bulletproof substantiation.
Case in "poynt"...
UPDATE: WarOnGuns Correspondent Michael G sends a link to what they're trying to do in Texas.
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European countries are routinely suing Facebook and Google for enough money to cover their school lunch programs, invariably for not being fascist ENOUGH. There’s absolutely no reason that states like Texas shouldn’t get in on the gravy train on the side of liberty.
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