The people at @YouTube @TeamYouTube made the right call in banning white supremacist James Allsup. Allsup attended the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally where a white supremacist murdered a woman and wounded dozens of others.https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-ejects-charlottesville-hate-marcher-james-allsup-after-daily-beast-expose …
See this is where I disagree. If these companies want to be treated like a platform then they need to uphold the first amendment. If they don’t, and want to be held to the standards of a publisher, they need to be regulated as such.
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act:https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230 …
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But even if they're liable for the speech of others it wouldn't be a First Amendment issue.
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