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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:47PM (#19504496)
How does the amount of bandwidth capable for carrying channels relate to whether something should be carried or not in a legal or constitutional sense?

Carrying white supremacist content has a cost to both Comcast and YouTube/Facebook. Nobody expects Comcast to carry the KKK channel and yet they have hundreds of channels and clearly space to carry it. So why aren’t they compelled to do so if Facebook is?

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:20PM (#19504893)
To answer your first question, the constitutional response would be "it doesn't". Legally, I'm unaware of any edge cases, except potentially some net neutrality related things. (I'm not very certain about NN.)

My point, however, is that this is neither a legal nor constitutional obligation, but a social and voluntary obligation to a free society.

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:42PM (#19505117)
Agreed. Just wanted to see if there was some precedent I was missing :)
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ams6110 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:59PM (#19504670)
Comcast is few-to-many model, Facebook is many-to-many.

A few content producers create the content that Comcast could potentially carry. Comcast selects what they want to provide to their many customers. Comcast has never marketed themselves as a place where anyone can have their content provided to subscribers. Facebook has, in fact that is the essence of what they do.