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KamenRiderBlade
08/11/18 11:27:33 PM
#152:


Sephiroth1288 posted...
it's that they refuse to follow their own rules when ruling about left-leaning channels.
So blatant Hypocrisy & double standards.
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Solid Snake07
08/11/18 11:52:36 PM
#153:


@darkjedilink posted...
Solid Snake07 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Solid Snake07 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
People have died due to BLM and Antifa rhetoric, too.

Should all media platforms ban BLM and Antifa, too?

They did?

Cops killed in Austin and BR by BLM supporters proves it.

Those are groups of people, not a single commentator

So? That makes the rhetoric less deadly?

Okay, whose rhetoric?

BLM and Antifa's racist and incendiary rhetoric and outright lies directly lead people unaffiliated with them to start shooting cops. How is that different than Alex Jones?


Because that's not a singular person you could deplatform genius. Which is what I'm trying to tell you. Alex jones isn't some vague group to silence. He's a well known talking head that they don't want representing their platform

If you said someone like Shaun king should be deplatformed for something he said that would be more coherent. But as far as I know he hasn't said anything to incite violence and even if he has he doesn't host a daily show to take down.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
08/12/18 12:04:41 AM
#154:


I don't know why he didn't pull a "but Sarah Jeong" because I would actually agreed with him.
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MC_BatCommander
08/12/18 12:07:49 AM
#155:


Sephiroth1288 posted...
it's that they refuse to follow their own rules when ruling about left-leaning channels.


Have any left-leaning channels posted content in violation of the TOS and gotten away with it?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
08/12/18 12:14:18 AM
#156:


MC_BatCommander posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
it's that they refuse to follow their own rules when ruling about left-leaning channels.


Have any left-leaning channels posted content in violation of the TOS and gotten away with it?


djl claimed so and I'm gonna hear him out if he provides sources.
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Funbazooka
08/12/18 12:15:24 AM
#157:


Solid Snake07 posted...
He's a well known talking head that they don't want representing their platform

How would any one content creator ever "represent their platform"?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
08/12/18 12:20:09 AM
#158:


Funbazooka posted...
Solid Snake07 posted...
He's a well known talking head that they don't want representing their platform

How would any one content creator ever "represent their platform"?


Because Alex Jones is the lemming at the front of the alt-right cliff-falling line.
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untrustful
08/12/18 12:25:07 AM
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untrustful
08/12/18 12:27:52 AM
#160:


If free speech also meant free platform, then we'd have something like this:
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Anteaterking
08/12/18 12:30:55 AM
#161:


untrustful posted...
If free speech also meant free platform, then we'd have something like this:
i4z5atX


This is the third time I've seen this comic in the last day on CE.

(Though I'm guilty of one of them)
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Solid Snake07
08/12/18 12:34:33 AM
#162:


Funbazooka posted...
Solid Snake07 posted...
He's a well known talking head that they don't want representing their platform

How would any one content creator ever "represent their platform"?


Just because someone isn't the sole representation of something doesn't mean they aren't a representation at all. Infowars was a pretty big channel on YouTube
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Damn_Underscore
08/12/18 12:38:33 AM
#163:


How many more people are going to equate freedom of speech with the 1st Amendment
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Solid Snake07
08/12/18 12:44:43 AM
#165:


Damn_Underscore posted...
How many more people are going to equate freedom of speech with the 1st Amendment


Because it's the only form of it that matters. Anyone who thinks they're entitled to say whatever the hell they want with no consequences can go wipe their ass with that opinion. You're entitled to not be jailed or silenced for what you say, you're not entitled to the rest of the world putting up with your bullshit.
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Damn_Underscore
08/12/18 12:45:13 AM
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"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction. The term 'freedom of expression; is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used."

What do you think freedom of speech is?
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Prestoff
08/12/18 12:49:52 AM
#167:


Liberal argument for NN isn't because of free speech, it's because without NN it leads to a lot of shady business practices that ISP can use just to say "well it was legal because we're under title 1 instead of under title 2".
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Damn_Underscore
08/12/18 12:50:02 AM
#168:


With social media companies or "big tech" as someone said in here being as big and overreaching as they are, I think the people should have rights on their platforms.

And no, the 1st Amendment is not the only form of freedom of speech that matters. By saying that, you're saying the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law is what matters. You may believe that, but I doubt you do.
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Funbazooka
08/12/18 12:51:46 AM
#169:


Solid Snake07 posted...
Just because someone isn't the sole representation of something doesn't mean they aren't a representation at all. Infowars was a pretty big channel on YouTube


So every content creator on YouTube partially represents YouTube ?

represent
[reprzent]
VERB

be entitled or appointed to act or speak for (someone), especially in an official capacity.


What on Earth are you talking about
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ImTheMacheteGuy
08/12/18 1:07:36 AM
#170:


Damn_Underscore posted...
"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction. The term 'freedom of expression; is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used."

What do you think freedom of speech is?


So what mandates it? Some sort of umbrella honor system that we are all expected to follow?
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Solid Snake07
08/12/18 10:24:01 AM
#172:


PyroBlade1985 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction. The term 'freedom of expression; is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used."

What do you think freedom of speech is?


So what mandates it? Some sort of umbrella honor system that we are all expected to follow?

If someone told you "Yes", what would you say?


Good luck with that
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scar the 1
08/12/18 11:01:06 AM
#174:


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You have to be thicker in the head than boogie2988 is in his whole body to think that it means any privately-owned business should allow the most toxic s*** on their platform because "muh censorship"

Not to mention, censorship is when you look at something before it's published and decide to suppress/silence it. What happened to Alex Jones wasn't that. He was allowed to spout his shit, then got his punishment afterwards. That's not censorship by any stretch.
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untrustful
08/12/18 11:45:38 AM
#175:


I guess every storeowner has to let people put whatever posters they want on the storeowner's windows, I guess every building has to let graffiti remain on their building (for life) and anyone who overrides that graffiti with more graffiti is violating free speech, I guess every publication has to give some space to people like Alex Jones if we're gonna be realistic about what the right to a platform means.

We do not have a right over private space. We do not have a right to a platform for free speech. If we did, society wouldn't function.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
08/12/18 11:46:37 AM
#176:


PyroBlade1985 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction. The term 'freedom of expression; is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used."

What do you think freedom of speech is?


So what mandates it? Some sort of umbrella honor system that we are all expected to follow?

If someone told you "Yes", what would you say?


I would ask "What is it?" He already explained that it's not the first ammendment. They are two separate entities and are defined differently.
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:17:09 PM
#177:


untrustful posted...
I guess every building has to let graffiti remain on their building (for life) and anyone who overrides that graffiti with more graffiti is violating free speech,

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ny-graffiti-artists-settlement-20180212-story.html
https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/developer-must-pay-6-7m-for-destroying-iconic-graffiti-art/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/nyregion/5pointz-graffiti-judgment.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/12/graffiti-artists-5pointz-lawsuit
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Villain
08/12/18 12:18:26 PM
#178:


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hockeybub89
08/12/18 12:20:53 PM
#180:


PyroBlade1985 posted...
Why do people ALWAYS post that damn comic?

So people don't forget
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:22:53 PM
#181:


untrustful posted...
I guess every publication has to give some space to people like Alex Jones if we're gonna be realistic about what the right to a platform means.
The thing about YouTube is it originally was a site for anybody to host anything in it's inception.

A 'Public Forum for User Created Videos' effectively the same as a Town Square with a Public Common Area for all use and spread their words.

Now it wants to become a 'Publisher with Editorial Powers' to control the content on it's site after many years of killing off the competition and becoming the dominant player in Publically Hosted Videos with a "Paying Content Creators" model through profit sharing of Ad-Revenue.

Then after so many years into it's domination, it wants to change the business from "Public Forum" -> "Publisher with Editorial Control" while getting the legal protections / benefits of a "Public Forum".

It needs to PICK ONE, not try to benefit off of both legal type categories.

And the way it got to that point was really disingenuous since many content creators started when it was a place to publically host videos for free.
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The Great Muta 22
08/12/18 12:28:46 PM
#182:


KamenRiderBlade posted...
The thing about YouTube is it originally was a site for anybody to host anything in it's inception.


It hasn't been that for close to a decade now, and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
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King_Hellebuyck
08/12/18 12:29:41 PM
#183:


KamenRiderBlade posted...
untrustful posted...
I guess every building has to let graffiti remain on their building (for life) and anyone who overrides that graffiti with more graffiti is violating free speech,

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ny-graffiti-artists-settlement-20180212-story.html
https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/developer-must-pay-6-7m-for-destroying-iconic-graffiti-art/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/nyregion/5pointz-graffiti-judgment.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/12/graffiti-artists-5pointz-lawsuit

And you agree with that, I assume, since youre using it as a defense?
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:33:22 PM
#185:


King_Hellebuyck posted...
And you agree with that, I assume, since youre using it as a defense?
No I'm not agreeing with it, but I'm telling you that some politicians will change the rules to suit their desires against Private Businesses / entities having their own rights to do whatever.
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Villain
08/12/18 12:36:26 PM
#186:


PyroBlade1985 posted...
Why do people ALWAYS post that damn comic?


because it's correct
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King_Hellebuyck
08/12/18 12:37:00 PM
#187:


KamenRiderBlade posted...
King_Hellebuyck posted...
And you agree with that, I assume, since youre using it as a defense?
No I'm not agreeing with it, but I'm telling you that some politicians will change the rules to suit their desires against Private Businesses / entities having their own rights to do whatever.

Ok so youre still not helping your argument
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:38:37 PM
#188:


The Great Muta 22 posted...
It hasn't been that for close to a decade now, and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
But a good chunk of it's initial years, it was that way.

Then it offered it's Content Creators a payment model to generate more content creators / traffic.

Only fairly recently in it's life did it start wanting Editorial control.
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ThePieReborn
08/12/18 12:40:45 PM
#189:


And as an additional note, current public forum jurisprudence applies only where government owns or has substantial control over the operation of the property so designated.

Only in the latter capacity has otherwise private property (an organization designated to operate public access channels) been designated a public forum.
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:40:51 PM
#190:


King_Hellebuyck posted...
Ok so youre still not helping your argument
Google can Editorialize if it wants to, but it needs to be UPFRONT about it and not have Double Standards when implementing it.

Then it should legally lose any protections as a Public Open Forum and be casted as different type of legal entity.

Something closer to a News Organization.
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:47:30 PM
#191:


The other solution is to write new legislation to force YouTube an all other Public Hosting platforms into compliance.
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Tmaster148
08/12/18 12:50:16 PM
#192:


KamenRiderBlade posted...
The other solution is to write new legislation to force YouTube an all other Public Hosting platforms into compliance.


I just want you to be aware that this is advocating abolishing private ownership of websites.
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The Great Muta 22
08/12/18 12:50:26 PM
#193:


KamenRiderBlade posted...
The other solution is to write new legislation to force YouTube an all other Public Hosting platforms into compliance.


That'd be completely ridiculous and far more akin to the mass government oversight that the majority of the country is trying to avoid
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:51:02 PM
#194:


Tmaster148 posted...
I just want you to be aware that this is advocating abolishing private ownership of websites.
Not necessarily, there are many ways to go about it.
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Tmaster148
08/12/18 12:52:16 PM
#196:


PyroBlade1985 posted...
Villain posted...
PyroBlade1985 posted...
Why do people ALWAYS post that damn comic?


because it's correct

It's B.S. and you know it! Look! Free speech is more than just having the right to say what you want. It can refer to the freedom to discuss ideas in a public forum. Social pressure can prevent ideas from being tested. Society needs to be robust, and for that we need to have robust dialogue. And that means the right to say offensive things.


You can say offensive things all you want, don't be surprised when websites ban you or no one wants to hang around you.
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KamenRiderBlade
08/12/18 12:52:26 PM
#197:


The Great Muta 22 posted...
That'd be completely ridiculous and far more akin to the mass government oversight that the majority of the country is trying to avoid
I thought the Left LOVES the government and wants it to stick it's nose into Everything and Regulate Everything!

As somebody who is of the "CTRL-Left" persuasion, I thought you would be more over joyed if government regulates it MORE!
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CableZL
08/12/18 12:52:27 PM
#198:


PyroBlade1985 posted...
It's B.S. and you know it! Look! Free speech is more than just having the right to say what you want. It can refer to the freedom to discuss ideas in a public forum. Social pressure can prevent ideas from being tested. Society needs to be robust, and for that we need to have robust dialogue. And that means the right to say offensive things.


Neither Facebook, Youtube, or Spotify are public forums, and Alex Jones has not lost the right to say offensive things as a result of the bans.
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ThePieReborn
08/12/18 12:54:39 PM
#199:


Also, folks talking about public forums, please go read the Denver Area Supreme Court case in its entirety.
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Damn_Underscore
08/12/18 12:57:38 PM
#200:


It's not even a good comic. It's just 5 stick figures and a door with a bunch of text. If you want to make that argument then say it.
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Villain
08/12/18 12:59:35 PM
#201:


Damn_Underscore posted...
It's not even a good comic. It's just 5 stick figures and a door with a bunch of text. If you want to make that argument then say it.


cognitive dissonance once again!
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