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This is a distinction that no existing or proposed law has made and is based solely on your feels.

A social network exists between people, it does not require a platform or technology. Social media is a medium where people correspond.



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All the explainers in the world don't matter if people don't actually use the terminology that way.


And yet here we are, using the terminology that way.


Not uniformly, no. The local comment subtree is plenty evidence of that.




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