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That analogy is false because what YouTube is doing is blocking video clips that were posted by other people. In your analogy, only you are censoring yourself.
by brianchu 14y ago
That analogy is false because what YouTube is doing is blocking video clips that were posted by other people.
In your analogy, only you are censoring yourself. Nobody else is censoring you from shouting whatever you want to shout. It would be perfectly fine if individual users voluntarily chose not to upload certain clips.
An accurate rhetorical question would be: Do you shout "HELLO CUNTS!!!" every time you enter a building and before a single sound has emerged from your mouth someone gags you?
- Evbn 14y agoOr you know, locked you out before you came into the building.
- edoloughlin 14y ago> An accurate rhetorical question would be: Do you shout "HELLO CUNTS!!!" every time you enter a building and before a single sound has emerged from your mouth someone gags you? Don't property rights trump free speech rights? (IANAL) I.e., it's ok for you to shout whatever you want in public, but I get to throw you out of my house if I don't like what you're saying? Aren't Google just exercising their property rights in this case, common carrier considerations aside?
- icebraining 14y agoDon't property rights trump free speech rights? (IANAL) Legally? Free speech has a right is mostly about freedom from governmental interference. Private companies usually can censor whatever they want. But I'm pretty sure people are discussing the moral aspect of this, not the legal. And one can consider that Google shouldn't do this, even if they have the legal right to do so.