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There’s no winning this game. Soon they will be considered liable for anything they didn’t censor, especially from the extreme left, as they are making the appe
by jl2718 6y ago
There’s no winning this game. Soon they will be considered liable for anything they didn’t censor, especially from the extreme left, as they are making the appearance of support. I hope they’re paying Michael a massive amount of money to associate himself with this dumpster fire.
- ggggtez 6y agoBizarrely, the reason that there is even a discussion of making them liabile for user speech to begin with is because of prostitution, pedophiles, and terrorism. I would hardly call those issues "extreme left". This change is actually from the conservative view point a lot of the time, especially as it comes to speech about sex. See cases against Backpage or Craigslist and prostitution. Once a company is criminally liable for user speech, you're going to get this situation where it's easier to just ban speech that even approach the line. But I don't think anyone is going to say that a company should be willfully blind to pedophiles on their platform. So this is the world we get.
- fzeroracer 6y agoTrump literally signed an executive order which was threatening social media companies to take on liability from anything their users posted. When that happens said companies will simply outright ban the subs that are causing problems, which are usually the far-right subs because they insist on making threats of violence and racism. The 'extreme left' has little to no political power compared to the president telling companies to either obey him or risk having their site go down in flames.
- chippy 6y agoa strange game - the only winning move is not to play.
- basch 6y agoSection 230 protects you from liability when you choose to censor.
- tomjen3 6y agoLegal liability. It does nothing to prevent them from being attacked in the press, for having their payment systems cut, or from being personally vilified. And who knows how soon the laws will change?
- mFixman 6y agoThat's the same slippery-slope argument people user to complain about Reddit banning pedophile subs in 2012. Extremist subs and their brigading were the biggest treat to free speech and creativity in the site.