Reddit wants to pick and choose what content is allowed on their site. Ok, they have that right as a private company.
That is called being a publisher. Companies that select what they want to publish, like book publishers, newspapers, blogs, or television stations, are responsible for the content that they publish. If it is defamatory, they must pay damages.
If reddit wants to act like a publisher, picking and choosing what viewpoint to endorse, then they should be liable for defamatory content on their site. If they don't want to be liable for that, then they should stop censoring views that they don't like. It's the way the law works for everyone else, and that's how it should work for large social media companies.
I would love to see Nick Sandmann or Sean Hannity follow up their current court cases with a lawsuit against Reddit using this very argument. Reddit is not a platform. There is too much editorial control for it to be anything other than a publisher.
Nick was 16 in 2018. He's a young adult now with the energy, financial means, and previous court settlements on his side from larger media companies than Reddit.
I'd like to go back to the days where we each have our own sites, or small-med forum sites/groups, that all link to each other via web rings. That's how things were before social media and plebbit centralized all of it. They sold us the convenience of one stop shopping, and we paid with our freedom of speech. I'd like to have the net look more like it used to. But that'd require tons of people to fire back up their old sites. And some type of API that all the devs could use to link feeds from all the sites together.
I use a certain hobby interest forum that claims "NO POLITICS ALLOWED". For the most part, that's true, but if you lean left it seems like a lot more leeway is given in what is considered a political post.
If you happen to lean to the right, you can be certain that some cucked bitch boy will be hitting the report button.
tread lightly here. Holding providers legally liable is dangerous. I'm thinking of secure platforms like Signal, vpns, etc. here There is a "bi-partisan bill working it's way though congress now that will do just that .It's supposedly to combat porn and child trafficking which has merit but it's all in the wording. Look for it in the next NDAA. That's where congress does all it's dirty work. NO MORE VOICE VOTING either.
Reddit wants to pick and choose what content is allowed on their site. Ok, they have that right as a private company.
That is called being a publisher. Companies that select what they want to publish, like book publishers, newspapers, blogs, or television stations, are responsible for the content that they publish. If it is defamatory, they must pay damages.
If reddit wants to act like a publisher, picking and choosing what viewpoint to endorse, then they should be liable for defamatory content on their site. If they don't want to be liable for that, then they should stop censoring views that they don't like. It's the way the law works for everyone else, and that's how it should work for large social media companies.
I would love to see Nick Sandmann or Sean Hannity follow up their current court cases with a lawsuit against Reddit using this very argument. Reddit is not a platform. There is too much editorial control for it to be anything other than a publisher.
Nick was 16 in 2018. He's a young adult now with the energy, financial means, and previous court settlements on his side from larger media companies than Reddit.
He's perfect.
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I'd like to go back to the days where we each have our own sites, or small-med forum sites/groups, that all link to each other via web rings. That's how things were before social media and plebbit centralized all of it. They sold us the convenience of one stop shopping, and we paid with our freedom of speech. I'd like to have the net look more like it used to. But that'd require tons of people to fire back up their old sites. And some type of API that all the devs could use to link feeds from all the sites together.
I use a certain hobby interest forum that claims "NO POLITICS ALLOWED". For the most part, that's true, but if you lean left it seems like a lot more leeway is given in what is considered a political post.
If you happen to lean to the right, you can be certain that some cucked bitch boy will be hitting the report button.
tread lightly here. Holding providers legally liable is dangerous. I'm thinking of secure platforms like Signal, vpns, etc. here There is a "bi-partisan bill working it's way though congress now that will do just that .It's supposedly to combat porn and child trafficking which has merit but it's all in the wording. Look for it in the next NDAA. That's where congress does all it's dirty work. NO MORE VOICE VOTING either.
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