Friday, June 19, 2020

Google demands that it be censored

Well not exactly.

Under Section 230 content neutral platforms on the Internet can't be sued if someone posts something libelous much less racist.

The idea is that these platforms are providing away for people to communicate and so long as the platforms are content neutral, they don't exclude say only left wing comments, they need to be immune to lawsuits.

In fact Google owns YouTube and invokes Section 230 protection as justification for why it doesn't police the comments posted on YouTube and why it can't be sued if someone say posted that you are a Nazi.

Now there's a big debate going on about Section 230 because Twitter and Facebook have begun controlling their content so they are no longer content neutral.  Yet they still demand Section 230 protection.

In the case of YouTube their parent company is worth nearly $1 trillion but they can't afford to monitor the comments on their site.

But when a foreign organization said that the conservative site, the Federalist, had comments on it that were racist Google apparently demanded that the Federalist remove those comments or be demonitized--Google wouldn't run ads on the site anymore.

So on one hand Google's YouTube doesn't moderate comments and says that they can't be held responsible for H8rs while on the other Google is threatening the Federalist because of unmoderated comments on the Federalist site.

Either Google is amazingly hypocritical here or it's a secret cry for help; "Censor us because we're too weak to remove racist comments".

Further it's hard to believe that lots of left wing sites don't have racists comments, white people are all evil, yet we never hear about those sites being threatened by Google.

If this is allowed to continue then the left will have an amazing tool to silence all conservative sites that use ad revenue.

Some dishonest leftist posts a racist comment on the conservative site and either the site has to moderate all comments, which is very expensive, block all comments--thereby silencing conservative voices--, or go without ad revenue.

This is normal for the left. They can't win arguments because the positions they support--eliminate the police and men can become women with some drugs and plastic surgery--are horrible so they try and shut down all dissenting voices.

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