A Hobgoblin Comes for Internet Regulation Tushnet, Rebecca Author aut (orcid)0009-0002-0812-9450 Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-02-19 eng
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 Recent laws in the US, along with the Digital Services Act (DSA), seek to provide “due process” for individual content moderation decisions. Due process, understandably enough, often contains a component of treating like cases alike. It seems to follow, then, that if two relevantly similar users are treated differently, there is a problem of inconsistency, and that problem might be addressed by requiring more “due process” in the forms of appeals and clear rules and explanations of those rules to offenders. But it is said that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. In internet regulation, it is a damaging goal if taken as a mandate to make individual decisions uniformly consistent with each other. CC BY-SA 4.0 Tushnet, Rebecca DSA Internet Internet Regulation Internet 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-hobgoblin-comes-for-internet-regulation/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/36e00341661f1124 240219 10.59704/36e00341661f1124 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)