Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Trump's ban will be good for social media platforms in the long run." video.

  1. Louis, I feel you. Yeah censorship, simply because it's private is a problem, ont hte other hand, as companies, they need to evade litigation. Even if the government didn't act on this, there is a chance, that someone could sue for some kind of damages as a result of something similar. let's say, that someone would use Twitter to call a hit on a synagog and a bunch of people died. Shouldn't such communication be silenced? And since there is good likelyhood, that this person/group will continue on different media, shouldn't all these media be allowed to censor that person? They aren't obligated to provide public service, so that affirmative defence is out and the companies should have a way of dodging litigation, resulting from actions of effectively third parties, because, otherwise through allowing comunication to be carried out over their network, they could be considered complicit in the act and thus face the same charges as those, who carried out the act them selves. If what happened was criminal, They would actually be drawn in as coconspirators. ISPs could claim, that they don't track user traffic and thus couldn't know about the atttack and thus are off the hook, but what about companies, who's literal business model is centered around what people think, talk about and do together and selling that info to ad agencies? That defence is gone like that. Not to mention, there are litigation costs regardless of lawsuit outcome. So shouldn't companies have the right to do this, if they do so avoiding a lawsuit? There need's to be some kind of safe harbour provision even for this, because otherwise, companies could simply point to a threat of litigation and they would have a reasonable excuse, you can't argue much against. And before you say, "But nobody would sue over that!", think again, Pepsi, co. was sued over not delivering a harrier fighter jet they promised in an ad! In the US all kinds of litigation is possible! I realise, this is a devil's advocate argument, but this too is a thing to consider. Then there is infrastructure problem. Sure, you could get a bunch of friends together and create a mesh-esque style system, which would be accessed as a website, but that still need's to have decent speeds, where your individual servers will be placed. I have seen very few ISPs, that would provide symetric or even inverse data plans to consumers. So there may be other hurdles to overcome in real world too. And one more thing. Most people, who subscribe to people like you, Eli, Crosstalk Solutions or even LTT, are above average computer literate. We know how to block ads and do that with religious vigor. Keeping any ads in the video doesn't drop a cent in ad revenue from most of your subscribers.
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