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Re:Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according ... by brookst on Friday June 06, 2025 @12:19PM (#44202390)
That would make sense if this were a math theorem, but law and liability and society don’t usually work like math.

Theee things can be true:

1. YT and similar give people a platform for speech

2. So long as they make a good faith effort to identify and remove content that is illegal, the hosted speech is not theirs.

3. As platform owner they are also free to exercise speech by moderating topics for any or no reason

Re:Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according ... by tshaddox on Friday June 06, 2025 @04:57PM (#44204898)
What then is the distinction between YouTube and a newspaper?
Re:Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according ... by neilcj on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:00PM (#44205897)
In your analogy, YouTube is the paperboy and the video producer is the newspaper.