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Except you don't have a legal right to post content on a private platform, that private company can do whatever they want, they aren't required to give you free
by hahn-kev 2y ago
Except you don't have a legal right to post content on a private platform, that private company can do whatever they want, they aren't required to give you freedom of speech.
- thayne 2y agoDMCA is a legal mechanism that the platform has to comply with. This isn't a case of a private company removing something that violates the ToS, it is a law that can be easily be abused by a third party to cause content to be taken down. It's like if there was a law that said if you send a notification to a storage or logistics company that you think one of their customers has counterfeit goods in their storage, the storage company is legally obligated to destroy the suspect property, regardless of whether there is any evidence that it is actually counterfeit. Or even just, that company is no longer allowed to provide service to that customer, and is allowed to seize and keep any property they currently have control over. I could also talk about how many of these platforms have too much power, and the lack of competition makes it problematic if they have control to censor as they please, but that is really a different topic.
- foobarchu 2y agoIANAL but I think this justification sits on very shakey ground when the private company is doing it in the name of the law (DMCA). For the same reason, I of course think the government demanding encryption backdoors by private companies violates the fifth amendment.