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I had a thought that came about as a result of this post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836503 both be
by tareqak 6y ago
I had a thought that came about as a result of this post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836503 both being on the HN front page at around roughly the same time I perused HN.
The thought is: why is GitHub so fast at taking down a potentially infringing code repository in response to a DMCA request but Google, Facebook, Twitter et al. so slow at taking down violence-promoting content?
- colpabar 6y agoMoney. Isn't it obvious? Github was facing a legitimate financial threat, and Facebook probably isn't. Facebook will suffer no real consequences, and everyone will forget about their newfound moral position that censorship is for the greater good of society and continue to use Facebook.
- chrononaut 6y agoVolume of requests and nuance of content also plays much more into Facebook's process than it would Github, at least on the former.
- erichocean 6y agoSection 230 makes them not liable.