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Free For All of Social Media censors won't last very long. It became mainstream to hate the internet and push for the end of platforms, effectively turning Twit
by lanevorockz 6y ago
Free For All of Social Media censors won't last very long. It became mainstream to hate the internet and push for the end of platforms, effectively turning Twitter/Facebook/Google into publishers. By doing that they automatically loose the ability to claim to be platforms and become publishers.
As a publisher it is much harder to guaranteed that things said in the platform won't end up in the arrest of your employees. Zuckerberg is trying to find a middle ground where he does not push an agenda but at the same time can keep its advertisers by removing things based on a clear policy ( showing violence / pornography / etc ).
Don't forget the media as a whole does NOT have that benefit, if a company publishes or defames people they will be severely punished. We should think really hard before asking for Social media companies to breach that vote of confidence, there is real chances Twitter will be the first giant to fall regardless if Biden wins the election.
- ryandrake 6y agoIt is becoming easier and easier to argue that these platforms are actually publishers. They are all making more editorial decisions on what posts to show and hide, where to show what, and they all have rules about what content is allowed and what's not. Those sound like the activities of a publisher to me.
- throwaway2048 6y agoThe idea that there is any law that "platforms" cant censor speech or they become publishers and take full responsibility for content is completely false, and has no basis in law whatsoever. Go actually READ section 230 and not what people repeat about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23408218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23408218