This is a terrible response. Social media connects people. That can be exploited and is, so needs to be reformed. But that connection is a lifeline for marginalized and smaller communities. Social media makes it possible for disabled people like me to connect, to organize and advocate in ways that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. It makes it possible to advance understanding of issues that traditional media undervalued. Consider how much public understanding of police abuse of minority communities has changed since we could see the videos and hear different narratives directly. Or how much understanding of LGBTQ communities has changed. Social media is wonderful. We just need to figure out how to reform it and make those reforms durable.

The post is free to access and written by a disabled lawyer that works on disability issues. No need to subscribe. But if you’d rather not give traffic, the other blog I linked to in the comments covers the same territory.

Not the onion. Here’s another blog discussing the same proposed rule: https://news.chanda.science/archive/its-the-end-of-american-science-as-we-know-it/