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YouYube is a publisher, but it's not a publication. A newspaper hires employees that are paid by the company to produce a publication, YouTube is a platform tha
by root_axis 5y ago
YouYube is a publisher, but it's not a publication. A newspaper hires employees that are paid by the company to produce a publication, YouTube is a platform that allows individuals to publish arbitrary video content, there is a very obvious difference between the two, playing on "publisher" semantics to imply that they should be held liable for uploads by random people makes no sense.
- _Algernon_ 5y agoIf you selectively censor views you're taking on an editorial function. With that comes the responsibilities of being a publisher. Or that's how it ought to be.
- root_axis 5y agoI get that this is what you think would be ideal, but this isn't true. Having a content policy is not "editorializing". Using that logic Facebook is "editorializing" by not allowing nude photos on the site. This isn't what editorializing means, this is just abuse of semantics to shoe-horn the idea that YouTube should be held legally responsible for content produced by independent 3rd parties.