My understanding is that they shouldn’t enjoy the legal benefits of being a neutral platform while enjoying the freedom to be a publisher with editorial control. Pick one, operate as one.
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What are those legal benefits?
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Replying to @Fernando45Faria @midnightchow and
Immunity to slander and libel
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Replying to @simona_bro @midnightchow and
Interesting, didn't know that. But don't you think the government is the wrong one since it's giving some benefits to the "wrong person"?
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Replying to @Fernando45Faria @simona_bro and
The thing is, YouTube benefits greatly from its legal status, think about what happens if someone uploaded child porn onto YouTube, then think about what would happen if YouTube was legally considered a publisher and then someone did that.
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Replying to @DB701 @Fernando45Faria and
While the blame can go onto the government for giving these protections to the wrong people, YouTube wasn’t always the wrong person, YouTube for a while acted like a true platform, it’s only now that they are shifting away from that
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Replying to @DB701 @Fernando45Faria and
And because of that the governments of the world need to give YouTube and all social media platforms a choice, become publishers legally and ban whoever you want, or stay platforms, and don’t ban whoever you want and enjoy the legal protections from being a platform
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Replying to @DB701 @Fernando45Faria and
Why can’t platforms ban who they want?
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Replying to @pikachuevie @DB701 and
For the same reason the phone company can’t decide who talks on it and about what, or what mass texts go through and which ones don’t. The phone company isn’t liable for conspiracy if someone plots a murder on there, because it’s a platform.
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Replying to @midnightchow @DB701 and
Phone companies are legally classified as utilities, social media companies are not.
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FWIW, I’m sympathetic to your point of view and used to hold it myself. My position has plenty of pitfalls of its own that I do recognize.
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