julybuffalo

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   by julybuffalo 7y ago

   Is the NYT responsible for its content? Why isn't YouTube a publisher now rather than a protected platform? Why couldn't the NYT justify itself as a platform instead of a publisher if YouTube is a platform?
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   by julybuffalo 7y ago

   I appreciate everyone using the word "publisher" to describe YouTube. Platforms only have legal protection from user content being their responsibility if they are not publishers. I would be happy for YouTube to lose their safe
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   by julybuffalo 7y ago

   Should Verizon be able to cancel your account because they don't like your phone conversations?
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   by julybuffalo 7y ago

   The press you mention is legally accountable for its content. Platforms have protections. Telephone companies, for example, aren't responsible if you slander someone over the phone and they send the audio to the recipient. Why shouldn&
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   by julybuffalo 7y ago

   This is actually an extremely gray legal area. The only reason platforms are viable is because they have legal protections that don't make them responsible for user content. At some level of "taken responsibility" (which I th