Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:05PM (#25924125)

> Regardless of what YouTube says, they are an advertiser-friendly entertainment website. Why in God's name would you use it to "chronicle history"?

I don't understand this argument at all. The entire Fourth Estate in the US has always been primarily paid for by advertisers, and just saying YouTube is an "entertainment website" seems like a poor attempt to say it can only be used for cat videos or something.

YouTube is the largest video distribution network on the planet. Of course I think someone would use it to chronicle video history.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:15PM (#25924187)

As a de facto monopoly, it’s certainly the only one that matters right now. But if, say, the porn tubes wanted to wall off a non-NSFW side, they could become a serious competitor overnight. Or if Netflix or Amazon started allowing end-user content, for that matter.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by kristopolous on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:25PM (#25924264)

If someone uploaded non adult content to one of the adult sites doing totally non-controversial things, like discussing smart phones or say a 20 part series on linear algebra, would they be kicked off the platform? Is there some effort to titillate requirement?

I'm imagining some vlogger doing an epic trolling email thread with the mods about how "actually, many people find e&m physics lectures erotic..."

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by j16sdiz on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:30PM (#25924308)

PornHub have lots of non-NSFW contents -- they have no issue with that.

You just don't want NSFW ad popup when you view them.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by ngngngng on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:27PM (#25924286)

I have no idea why porn sites wouldn't attempt to compete, their technology is solid, sometimes industry leading. Diversify.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by seanp2k2 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:09PM (#25931587)

I would also just like to remind everyone that there are many video sites out there that aren’t explicitly porn sites (but do generally allow some level of porn) that are not YouTube. They also tend to have NSFW / scammy ads as those are the only advertisers willing to pay to advertise next to content that wouldn’t be acceptable on YT.

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