I guess Spotify has a lot to atone for in the wake of having the audacity of paying Joe Rogan money to host his podcast,
Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread
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I guess Spotify has a lot to atone for in the wake of having the audacity of paying Joe Rogan money to host his podcast,
Chaos Marine
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Just came across this and this thread seemed the closest to it.
Typhonis
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Poor Facebook are those Lawsuits inbound for you?
Texas court: Facebook can be held liable for sex trafficking predators – FOX13 News Memphis (fox13memphis.com)
Texas court: Facebook can be held liable for sex trafficking predators – FOX13 News Memphis (fox13memphis.com)
Bear Ribs
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YouTube has blocked Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights' channel for revealing what's going on in Chinese concentration camps.
It's worth noting the methodology involved in killing things this way. It doesn't matter if you win because there's always another different claim over and over until something sticks, and of course for each claim, regardless of its truth, they have to block the entire channel for days to weeks at a time for "review" so win or lose, the channel still loses.
First, it was 'cyberbullying and harassment' and when YouTube couldn't make that claim stick, it was because people in the video identified themselves, and when that didn't stick it was that the videos may promote violent criminal organizations, when that didn't stick YouTube decided that documentaries on Chinese concentration camps were not educational, documentary or scientific and thus could be restricted heavily under their TOS. Finally, YouTube settled for "You're welcome to post your videos on some other video hosting service."
"There is another excuse every day. I never trusted YouTube," Serikzhan Bilash, one of Atajurt's founders, told Reuters in a phone interview. "But we're not afraid anymore, because we are backing ourselves up with LBRY. The most important thing is our material's safety."
news.trust.org
Part of the issues involved for the human rights organization is that Chinese Authorities have confiscated most of their cell phones and hard drives so until they can finish making the move to LBRY, YouTube holds the only remaining copies of many of the videos of these concentration camps.
It's worth noting the methodology involved in killing things this way. It doesn't matter if you win because there's always another different claim over and over until something sticks, and of course for each claim, regardless of its truth, they have to block the entire channel for days to weeks at a time for "review" so win or lose, the channel still loses.
First, it was 'cyberbullying and harassment' and when YouTube couldn't make that claim stick, it was because people in the video identified themselves, and when that didn't stick it was that the videos may promote violent criminal organizations, when that didn't stick YouTube decided that documentaries on Chinese concentration camps were not educational, documentary or scientific and thus could be restricted heavily under their TOS. Finally, YouTube settled for "You're welcome to post your videos on some other video hosting service."
"There is another excuse every day. I never trusted YouTube," Serikzhan Bilash, one of Atajurt's founders, told Reuters in a phone interview. "But we're not afraid anymore, because we are backing ourselves up with LBRY. The most important thing is our material's safety."
YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos
Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights' channel, which published nearly 11,000 videos on YouTube totaling over 120 million views has been blocked for violating policy
news.trust.org
Part of the issues involved for the human rights organization is that Chinese Authorities have confiscated most of their cell phones and hard drives so until they can finish making the move to LBRY, YouTube holds the only remaining copies of many of the videos of these concentration camps.
Chaos Marine
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*Chuckles*
*Chuckles*
you live by the sword you die by the sword.
Chaos Marine
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As much as I'd like for this to be true, Google can hire enough lawyers to keep Crowder from ever becoming an actual issue. I'd love nothing more for him to win but in all honesty, I can't see it happening.
They have beat YouTube before you know.
PsihoKekec
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To surprise of absolutely no one.
Bear Ribs
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A Federal judge has shot down the Florida law that would have penalized social media for deplatforming politicians.
On what grounds?
Bear Ribs
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Going off the article:
“The plaintiffs are likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that these statutes violate the First Amendment,” Hinkle wrote. “There is nothing that could be severed and survive.”
there was “substantial factual support” showing the law was motivated by hostility toward the perceived liberal bias of large tech firms.
Chaos Marine
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That screams the same kind of mindset of, "We're too big to fail! If we do, the government will bail us out! We have nothing to worry about!" from the other side. And if Facebook, Twitter etc have to fail so other companies can take their place and have a decent chance of succeeding, that should be the desired outcome. They were given specific protections because they're supposed to be unbiased platforms and not the publishers they're actually behaving as.
StormEagle
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Presumably for potentially hurting a Democrat aligned business sector.
Hinkle is a Clinton appointee, so it’s no wonder that he would seek to help Big Tech against republicans.
Yep, but SCOTUS's term just about to end, so they could not rule on it till next year, if it makes it to them.
Apparently dunking on the CCP during their Birthday bash is frowned upon within Twitter.