Analogising on Lionel's point, just because a dog and a chair each have 4 legs, it doesn't mean we should require the owner of a chair to get it neutered & a licence for it. People from technical backgrounds regard these services as tech companies, those from traditional ... 1/3 https://twitter.com/lionelbarber/status/1347834237710454784

... publishing backgrounds see them as publishers, mis-informed free-speechers think them as the "public square". Everyone wants to apply their preferred regs from their own spheres on these services. It makes sense to them. But ... it won't make sense to anyone else. The ... 2/3

... reason for this is that these services are none of the above, and if you want to regulate them, you can't import the regs you are familiar with -- we have to come up with something that actually stands a chance of working. 3/3