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Common carrier laws are woefully inadequate for this. Social media doesn't function by me going to your webpage and seeing what you've written. Twitter, TikTok,
by Traster 6y ago
Common carrier laws are woefully inadequate for this. Social media doesn't function by me going to your webpage and seeing what you've written. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, every single one are primarily driven by algorithmic discovery. You go to youtube, youtube says "Hey! Here's our curated list of what we think our usres want to see". Making youtube a common carrier would be fine- they would be forced to host porn videos, spam and gore. The result of common carrier legislation on facebook is you'd have Alex Jones on facebook and not a single link, not a single trending page, would ever link to him ever. It would be functionallly undiscoverable. Which is basically where Alex Jones is today.
- stale2002 6y ago> are primarily driven by algorithmic discovery. The news feed is certainly driven by algorithmic discovery. But the standard user page, or user account, for any of these, is usually not. So, for example, a reasonable compromise would to apply common carrier laws to the places where it is possible. IE, allow people to have the user page. > It would be functionallly undiscoverable Disagree. There is still value in having that youtube user page for someone with existing audiences, even if they do not have youtube discovery. Furthermore, even if youtube refuses to do discovery for these pages, it would still be possible for 3rd parties to do discovery. Imagine if you could subscribe to a different discovery website that just takes information from youtube pages. That would be interesting to drive competition in discovery algorithms and give people choice over that.