YouTube is providing Jones a platform on different and more favorable terms than any other user, with demonstrable knowledge he uses that platform to lie and defame. This evidences culpable complicity in Jones' specific defamations of the Sandy Hook parents.
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The defamation standards for liability of a media outlet are high. But YouTube clearly satisfies them here. YouTube's admins appear to be thumbing their nose at liability, daring harmed families to sue them. My sisters and brothers of the bar, why not call their bluff?
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Algorithms are written by humans, and they can be written to favor or injure. Standards are enforced by humans, and can be enforced with clear malicious intent. This would be ideal context to chip away liability insulation (largely assumed) from FB, YouTube, and other bad actors.
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We cannot afford the risk, as a constitutional democratic republic, of continuing to allow tiny coteries of ridiculously-wealthy internet oligarchs to warp our political information by selling amped public access to the highest bidder. Time's up.
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