Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by wwright on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:22PM
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Do you have any examples of that happening to people for actions that aren’t straight up pedophilia or racism (ie Stormfront)?
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by Vecr on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:16AM
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Hate speech is free speech, in US law. Racism is absolutely protected.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by wwright on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:52AM
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Free speech is about government laws, not private action. Racist speech is protected, but so is the right to not propagate racist speech on private infrastructure.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by derivagral on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:44AM
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This is what will lose them section 230 though, right? The bloc that "snaps" is going to vote, and those votes are going to have consequences.
I'm pretty sure that's been tried, no? And then the same regressives have ensured those services are:
- Deplatformed by infrastructure providers
- Stripped of support from payment providers
- Deindexed, banned from advertising, etc. from search engines
- Silenced on social media so as to not be able to get their brand / product out
But hey, I mean it's a free world, right? I, as an impartial observer free from any consequences, honestly welcome the US tech industry to continue backing half of the US population into a corner, and believe me I will spare the same industry not one iota of sympathy when those same people inevitably snap.