Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems | Center for Internet and Society

The ideas outlined here assume that lawmakers want to shape platform behavior more broadly – including by constraining their discretionary power to take down users’ lawful speech under Terms of Service or Community Guidelines. I refer to arguments that platforms can be compelled to carry content against their will as “must carry” claims. Much of the paper is devoted to the likely Constitutional barriers to such claims or laws. This section also builds on discussions about exactly which speech and exactly which platform operations, including content ranking or amplification, might be affected by must-carry rules.