Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by unethical_ban on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:44PM
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Not the OP, but I think "companies" and "individuals" are very different, and discussions around corporate responsibility and society are different from regulating social behavior between two individuals.
Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by ssivark on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:05PM
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To add, I think that rather than a person -vs- company dichotomy, it’s better to frame the discussion in terms of the total resources that can be brought to bear, and whether that can have an “undue” influence (relative to the power of all the other agents in a sector). Eg: Bill Gates (an individual) is much closer in this sense to YouTube than a typical small company employing a dozen people.
Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by CamperBob2 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:47PM
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So what about regulating it between three individuals? Or four? Or four hundred? At what point does collective social behavior become (y)our concern?
Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by krastanov on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:38PM
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Since when is a mathematical definition necessary for this? Finding the "exact line of separation" between a couple of individuals and a powerful megacorp sounds like a fun mental puzzle, but it is not something that comes up in practice. What is the thought experiment in which finding the exact delineation is of importance? On the other hand, it is pretty easy to distinguish the limiting cases. This is like worrying about how large an asteroid has to be in order to be called a planet.
Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by unethical_ban on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:11AM
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Profit motive, the ability for newcomers in your market-space to challenge your position in your market, and the form of your organization.
Two people in their house,
a large, transparent non-profit advocacy organization,
a dark money lobbying org, and
a hundred-billion-dollar for-profit incumbent that acts as a pillar of human interaction for news, education and entertainment across the globe
are very different situations. It isn't as simple as scaling up numbers.
Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by lmm on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:25AM
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At the point where a collective asks for the special privilege of forming a limited liability corporation?
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So what's your take on Lawrence v. Texas?