Is it time for a digital "bill of rights"?

“We ****ed up once so we have to keep ****ing up.”

No thanks.

I'm tired of the edit button not working, so I'm just gonna add another post. You didn't address twitter claiming both publisher and platform status. That as nothing to do with Trump. A platform cannot have first amendment rights, a publisher can. At different times twitter has argued it has both.

When we see them behave this way, when we see the power they have, when our government has already set the precedent on getting involved in who can or can't be blocked...I just feel yeah, shit needs to be regulated or something. Make it a public utility, my phone company can't drop me over an offensive text message, can they?

Originally posted by ares834
“We ****ed up once so we have to keep ****ing up.”

No thanks.

It's not just once. We aren't talking about getting involved in mom and pop stores, but mega corporations with way too much power here.

Can someone explain how our country benefits from these specific companies not being regulated? I am talking about these specific ones.

Our country doesn’t benefit. However, I’m against regulation of The internet itself. Do I like Twitter and Facebook? No, not at all. But if the gov’t begins to regulate how they run their websites I’m worried about the effects it could have on the rest of the web. And even if it has no effect, I still don’t think the gov’t should have any role in it.

Originally posted by ares834
Our country doesn’t benefit. However, I’m against regulation of The internet itself. Do I like Twitter and Facebook? No, not at all. But if the gov’t begins to regulate how they run their websites I’m worried about the effects it could have on the rest of the web. And even if it has no effect, I still don’t think the gov’t should have any role in it.

But this is already having a chilling effect. Peoples livelihoods have been turned upside down because of youtube purges.

I see regulation as a last resort, but one we're quickly approaching unfortunately.

I mean I don't know if you know much about the Steven Crowder controversy, but youtube said he violated no rules and then punished him anyways by demonetizing his stuff after some folk whined. I'm not trying to make this about whether or not in reality he did violate the rules, the point is the company came out and said flat out he didn't violate them, but caved anyways to demonetize him.

Maybe the government would do an even worse job and maybe they'd do a better job, but I'm at a loss at what else to do here. Surely we can't just do nothing.

If the companies get 100% say it what they allow on their site, then they should be held 100% responsible for everything they allow to be posted, right?

That would make them a publisher(which is not what they want). Platforms enjoy an immunity, but not first amendment rights.

Yet twitters own attorneys have argued it has first amendment rights. Its senior strategist on public policy has said the same thing.

They wanna have their cake and eat it too.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
I'd rather see a bill of rights which involves government not interfering in a private website's right to manage it's own content. not that it's needed

If the companies get 100% say in what they allow on their site, then they should be held 100% responsible for everything they allow to be posted, right?

Bashy is too damn dumb to understand the difference between a publisher and a website that essentially acts as a public square.

Originally posted by Silent Master
If the companies get 100% say in what they allow on their site, then they should be held 100% responsible for everything they allow to be posted, right?

When your livelihood relies on youtube... 😆 ❌

Originally posted by Putinbot1
When your livelihood relies on youtube... 😆 ❌

Originally posted by Putinbot1
When your livelihood relies on youtube... 😆 ❌

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-10-highest-paid-youtube-stars-of-2018-forbes/

Originally posted by Silent Master
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-10-highest-paid-youtube-stars-of-2018-forbes/

Biting the hand that feeds them by earning money as online Nazis to gain advertising. Funny stuff.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
When your livelihood relies on youtube... 😆 ❌

When your livelihood relies on trolling people and posting a bunch of anti-USA threads on a comic book/movies forum because you are so damn jealous that America is soooo much better than your country. 😆 🤣 😆

Originally posted by Putinbot1
I dong doubt they earn money... it will all go wrong for most of them.

Unless they're morons(which several of them probably are) they have already earned more than enough to retire.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
I dong doubt they earn money... it will all go wrong for most of them.

Biting the hand that feeds them by earning money as online Nazis to gain advertising. Funny stuff.

Nobody on the list provided is a nazi.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
When your livelihood relies on trolling people and posting a bunch of anti-USA threads on a comic book/movies forum because you are so damn jealous that America is soooo much better than your country. 😆 🤣 😆

Originally posted by Silent Master
Unless they're morons(which several of them probably are) they have already earned more than enough to retire.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
Biting the hand that feeds them by earning money as online Nazis to gain advertising. Funny stuff.

Which ones do that?