Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by gnicholas on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:15PM
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It's not all about the First Amendment, but if someone is going to equate two things that are treated differently under both American and other (UK, for example) laws, it's a relevant point. Also, Google is a company headquartered in the US, so US law is somewhat more relevant than other law.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by glenstein on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:18PM
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>but if someone is going to equate two things that are treated differently under both American and other (UK, for example) laws, it's a relevant point.
It's relevant insofar as legal distinctions between US and UK are relevant, which is to say, not relevant at all so far as I can tell. I don't think anyone's argument here hinged on such a distinction. If it did, and to that extent, it's relevant. But the heartland of this whole conversation has to do with a conception of speech as a principle that's broader than just U.S. law.
So we should be clear about the extent to which this is, or isn't, speaking to the conversation that everyone else is having.