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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3) Pressure towards a more intelligent public conversation about what kind of moderation we want platforms to engage in. I don't think telling Noah "I, unlike you, care about free speech" answers hard questions about what a private company used by billions has the right to do.
Companies don't have rights. Individuals do. Such as free speech. It's not that complicated tbh.
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Companies are, by default, entitled to stop doing business with anyone for any reason. You can argue "the ability of disapproved-of speech to spread is so important that we should restrict the typical right of companies to stop doing business w/ anyone for any reason -
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And as someone whose opinions would all have been outside the Overton Window at various points in history I'll even be pretty sympathetic -- but the current default is that companies have the right to not do business with anyone for most reasons and you propose changing that.
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This is not what the right to free speech means in America
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