Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @07:07PM
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A newspaper has editors and a viewpoint. An online platform for folks to post their own articles does not. Its akin to the post office having an editorial board?
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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers
by tbabb on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:34PM
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Unlike the post office, both a newspaper and Google's primary competitive service is organizing and prioritizing information. Would you suggest that the government mandate how they do that?
The post office is more analogous to the transport layer, in which case you'd be making a solid case for net neutrality, and I'd agree with you there. The post office having an editorial board would be like Comcast having an editorial board.
Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers
by GW150914 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @07:13PM
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All of these self-styled platforms have already taken editorial actions under the guise of enforcing their TOS, it’s called moderation. Unless what you’re sending is illegal, the post office doesn’t get to pick and choose what it sends; Twitter, Facebook, Google and the rest do. If you want to send porn through the USPS, you can, but try that with FB.
The “platform” excuse is dead on the first real legal challenge. It’s past time for these publishers to be held to the standards other publishers have been held to for decades or longer. They can’t cry “free speech” on one hand while acting like publishers on the other. When it was just galling hypocrisy fair enough, but they’re big enough and have supplanted enough “traditional media” that their time has come.