This isn't politics - Better pay attention

[Shaps]

https://www.rt.com/usa/521456-youtub...ression-award/

The height of hypocrisy.

"Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of Google’s video platform YouTube, was awarded the Freedom Forum Institute’s ‘Free Expression Award’ on Friday in a ceremony sponsored by her own company – despite YouTube’s track record of censorship."

“The freedoms we have, we really can’t take for granted,” Wojcicki declared, adding that “we really have to make sure we’re protecting them in every way possible.”

Wojcicki, however, went on to argue that “we also need to make sure there are limits,” and revealed that the company removed nine million videos in the last quarter, 90% of which were taken down by machines.

She also said there is “a lot of content that technically meets the spirit of what we’re trying to do, but it is borderline, and so for that content we will just reduce – meaning we’re not going to recommend it to our users.”

****Understand yet? They know best. They will decide for you. They determine what you should be allowed to say or not say.

[drauz]

****Understand yet? They know best. They will decide for you. They determine what you should be allowed to say or not say.

They decide what is acceptable on their platform, seems about right to me. They aren't the gov't, you don't have free speech on their platform.

[~Rocktar~]

They decide what is acceptable on their platform, seems about right to me. They aren't the gov't, you don't have free speech on their platform.

The phone company isn't the government but you DO have free speech on their platform because they are a medium based on the same protections granted to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and so on. Yet simpletons like you and others argue this same retarded point every time. And then you go whole hog on persecuting a baker or florist when they choose to refuse service to people based on their faith.

Get it yet? You are the Left are hypocrites and do not believe in free speech and you are defending your bastions of control at every turn. It's ok when they censor conservatives because they are mean. Just remember Robespierre’s Law – Power you give government to do unto others will be used to do unto you. They see themselves as a government and that needs to stop.

[drauz]

The phone company isn't the government but you DO have free speech on their platform because they are a medium based on the same protections granted to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and so on.

Except that it's not, and the courts have upheld that.

Recent Supreme Court precedent—in Manhattan Community Access Corp v. Halleck, 139 S. Ct. 1921 (2019)—has weighed against this argument, holding that “merely hosting speech by others is not a traditional, exclusive public function and does not alone transform private entities into state actors subject to First Amendment constraints.”

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/...-private-forum

And then you go whole hog on persecuting a baker or florist when they choose to refuse service to people based on their faith.

Pretty sure the Supreme Court upheld their right to do this, unfortunately they couldn't force people to continue using their service.

Care to reply and be wrong again?

[Tgo01]

They decide what is acceptable on their platform, seems about right to me. They aren't the gov't, you don't have free speech on their platform.

"Just build your own multibillion dollar company!"

[drauz]

"Just build your own multibillion dollar company!"

Just pull yourself up by the bootstraps and do it.

[Gelston]

"Just build your own multibillion dollar company!"

They didn't start as multibillion dollar companies. Maybe the MyPillow guy will invest if you decide to start something.

[Tgo01]

They didn't start as multibillion dollar companies.

They used government protection to become the behemoth they are today and now they crush any competition that even tries to emerge. Same with Facebook. Facebook now just buys anything that might compete with Facebook.

When the government offered these protections to internet companies I don't think they envisioned just a handful of internet companies running everything, they wanted a lot of competition.

[Gelston]

They used government protection to become the behemoth they are today and now they crush any competition that even tries to emerge. Same with Facebook. Facebook now just buys anything that might compete with Facebook.

When the government offered these protections to internet companies I don't think they envisioned just a handful of internet companies running everything, they wanted a lot of competition.

You mean like Standard Oil did? Like AT&T did? Like Disney did? Like Microsoft did?

[Gelston]

It is business. If you don't like it, don't use it.

Just like Kranar could pop back in here and stop you from spamming 35646435 threads about whatever article you come across every day.