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What classifies as distribution?
by DenverCoder99 5y ago
What classifies as distribution?
- TameAntelope 5y agoYouTube hosting the art. YouTube gets to decide what YouTube shows to its users.
- intricatedetail 5y agoSo they are they a publisher?
- TameAntelope 5y agoNo? They're a platform, the artist is the publisher.
- kyle_martin1 5y agoYouTube makes opinionated decisions about what gets in their search results. They edit their search results and have a team that decides that goes on the front page. That's editing. YouTube is a publisher.
- TameAntelope 5y agoNope! None of that is relevant, even remotely, in determining what a publisher is. YouTube is a platform.
- kyle_martin1 5y agoPlease explain. All you said said was “I disagree”.
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- irl_chad 5y agoA publishing house publishes a book that an author writes. Digital platforms want to have it both ways - they want to (in some cases manually!!!) curate and censor recommendations, search results, and plain uploads, while also retaining their platform protections. The libertarian stance on this issue is completely untenable. I know an Olympic gymnast who can’t perform gymnastics that well.
- matthewmarkus 5y agoThe libertarian stance would be to repeal CDA 230. I don't know any libertarians that prefer statutory law to common law. "Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state power, but some libertarians diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing economic and political systems."
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- TameAntelope 5y agoThis isn't really about section 230, this is about the first amendment. You cannot, and will not, ever successfully pass an enforced law that requires private companies to maintain content they themselves did not produce on their website against their will. You can repeal section 230, and the first amendment will still protect every company in the US from doing what you want them to do. There is no version of this where you win, and anti-vax or overtly hateful/conservative content sticks around on YouTube.
- matthewmarkus 5y agoThe point of repealing section 230 is to end YouTube as we know it. Basically, YouTube becomes the Washington Post and can carry fully moderated content that it selects and publishes. YouTube's current business model only exists by legislative fiat. It's time to give power back to the courts and reinstate the precedent of Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prodigy_Services_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....