Re:A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power
by JoshTriplett on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:45PM
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> Lets move them towards being a more neutral platform with less or no editorial control. That would be wonderful.
Ugh, no. Editorial control and moderation makes the difference between a community and an open sewer.
But let's make sure we don't create such a liability that nobody wants to host user content at all. Because the easiest thing to do is to omit user content and focus exclusively on licensed, first-party, commercial content that has a contract associated with it. That doesn't create communities.
It would certainly be great if the big tech companies engaged in less censorship. Which is why we need more policies that encourage them to be neutral platform, possibly like the utilities laws we have, instead of doing the opposite of making them more likely to take down content.
Lets move them towards being a more neutral platform with less or no editorial control. That would be wonderful.