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I don't think comparing facebook or youtube to "the most popular bookstore" is fair, books (and movies, TV, magazines etc) are just not in the same category as
by thebean11 7y ago
I don't think comparing facebook or youtube to "the most popular bookstore" is fair, books (and movies, TV, magazines etc) are just not in the same category as facebook or twitter.
I don't think facebook and twitter can be compared to something like an ISP, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I personally find it concerning that more and more everyday human communication is moving to platforms that can arbitrarily ban you from communicating.
- mikekchar 7y agoIt's fair if you want to argue that posting Youtube videos is an essential service. I would argue pretty strenuously that it is not. I might even be convinced that facebook or twitter might fall into that category (but then I would probably argue that the service would need to be forcibly federated in that case). Posting a video on Youtube is publishing, not personal communication. Forcing publishers to show your message to the world is not free speech -- even if they are the only popular publisher on the planet.
- julybuffalo 7y agoI appreciate everyone using the word "publisher" to describe YouTube. Platforms only have legal protection from user content being their responsibility if they are not publishers. I would be happy for YouTube to lose their safe harbor protections if they continue to censor content.