YouTube, like Facebook and Twitter, is realizing that it is now what CBS/ABC/NBC used to be. This was always a necessary realization.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1136320203300777992 …
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I do believe in free speech, but I think the EFF conception of free platform speech is doomed to destruction. You can still fight for it, but I do not think you will prevail, and the fight will probably distract you from more effective strategies.
What's a more effective strategy of fighting for free speech than fighting for free speech? Not fighting for it? Or inventing my own billion-user platform?
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1) Pressure for more process: that is, for companies to be clearer about their guidelines and to have transparent, ideally third-party-moderated appeals processes, while acknowledging they have good reasons as businesses to have content-based guidelines
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2) The fandom community dealt with censorious fandom sites by building Archive of Our Own, a fan community that doesn't censor anything. Everyone loves it, it works really well, and it quickly replaced censorious platforms. I think you might be underrating that as an approach.
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That last one seems like a reasonable option— though economically if users call on you to censor and you don’t a great irony is that your platform may become less useful overall because of boycotts and controversies
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I already said, in my thread. Read it!
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Rhetorical: is it really that difficult to obey a companies terms of service? The fuck is everyone bitching about.
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