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Google's decision to be the arbiter of acceptable speech will be its undoing.

• tinus_hn 7y ago
  How exactly is that scenario going to play out?
  • Karunamon 7y ago
    Generate enough outrage and laws can change. While current law recognizes the difference between a publisher and a platform, recent activities could very well cause pressure for publisher-like liability when these platforms begin exercising a high degree of editorial control. The social media giants' problem is that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the editorial control, and they want to be absolved of any liability when they host terrorist propaganda (think ISIL), pedo bait, and other garbage. There's also the recent court decisions regarding politicians' usage of blocking. That ruling creeps right up to the line of recognizing "private" social media providers as a public square of sorts. The situation we're in is not tenable for much longer.
    • Nasrudith 7y ago
      That wouldn't work how you want it to and wouldn't be a good idea - especially if expecting outrage to be in your service. The end result would be a choice between a troll and spam storm or precurated everything.
      • Karunamon 7y ago
        I always thought a great idea for stepping over this whole problem is a robust tagging/categorizing system, and then make certain tags opt-in to view. That would be the least amount of work and least likely to be upsetting to reasonable people. That aside, the one worry I share is that the outrage is going to drive a legislative solution that ends up splitting the baby and sucking for all parties concerned. I was entirely serious when I said this situation wasn't tenable, though. Too much emotion/polarization/etc for something to not give soon.
• justforyou 7y ago
  Its undoing, or ours?