Nothing says they can't, but once you start picking and choosing which content to allow you cease to be a platform and begin to be a publisher. Right now many social media sites argue they are platforms, not publishers, and are exempt from certain regulations. 1/2
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Replying to @sweats_actual @RedBloodedGuy and
If they were treated as a publisher, these sites could then be held civilly, and in some cases criminally, liable for the content they allow. They could also be subject to libel and defamation suits, which they are currently exempted from due to not being a publisher. 2/2
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Replying to @sweats_actual @RedBloodedGuy and
What law says that once you ban a scumbag you cease to be a "platform" ? does US constitution or for that matter any constitution define "platform" ?
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Replying to @teg_jamshed @RedBloodedGuy and
The Constitution does not. The legal code does.
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Replying to @sweats_actual @RedBloodedGuy and
Show me the definition of "platform" in the legal code of any state.
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Replying to @teg_jamshed @RedBloodedGuy and
You have the internet, you can do the research.
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Replying to @sweats_actual @RedBloodedGuy and
Yeah i did, and it does not exists, you lied. Definition of "platform" does not exists, If you right wingers do not agree with Youtube, then push off. make your own streaming service and remain there.
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Replying to @teg_jamshed @RedBloodedGuy and
You didn't do a lot of research. Nice try though.
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Replying to @sweats_actual @RedBloodedGuy and
Dude stop lying, do not be a LAIR, if Youtube was a in the wrong with legal code, then these rightwing nutters be suing its ass off in SC.
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Replying to @teg_jamshed @sweats_actual and
The question is whether these social media organizations have crossed over status protections granted to a platform into the subjective, legally liable status of a publisher. If you are going to curate content on a case by case basis you are now acting as a publisher.
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Which is the case I was making, albeit not as eloquently. It also helps when I read what you write in the voice of my spirit animal, Ron Swanson.
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