I am 100% for the socials being allowed to run their business however they want. I am also 100% opposed to the government mandating "fairness", and really of the government being involved at all. As I see it, the government is already involved, however, by labelling the socials as common carrier, and, allowing things like the dmca safe harbor exceptions, the government has been too involved in companies that have expressed clear intent to behave as publishers. How long after a trump tweet of something along the lines of "I have asked Ajit Pai to look into whether or not the socials are behaving as publishers" do you think it would be before they caved? One hour? Or two? Because their stock wouldn't last much longer than that.
Can you imagine the erections of the mpaa lawyer's looking at Google/Facebook's bankroll for every infringing post?
This is literally the single smartest thing I've read in over a year. So true, so obvious, so not going to happen, which is sad, because if only our so called leaders could put on their big boy pants and address these issues like you, like an adult, we could start chipping away at some of these problems.
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I am 100% for the socials being allowed to run their business however they want. I am also 100% opposed to the government mandating "fairness", and really of the government being involved at all. As I see it, the government is already involved, however, by labelling the socials as common carrier, and, allowing things like the dmca safe harbor exceptions, the government has been too involved in companies that have expressed clear intent to behave as publishers. How long after a trump tweet of something along the lines of "I have asked Ajit Pai to look into whether or not the socials are behaving as publishers" do you think it would be before they caved? One hour? Or two? Because their stock wouldn't last much longer than that. Can you imagine the erections of the mpaa lawyer's looking at Google/Facebook's bankroll for every infringing post?
This is literally the single smartest thing I've read in over a year. So true, so obvious, so not going to happen, which is sad, because if only our so called leaders could put on their big boy pants and address these issues like you, like an adult, we could start chipping away at some of these problems.